In the first round, most players get fully guaranteed contracts.

In the second round, everybody gets the first two years fully guaranteed and the top players get a portion of Year 3 guaranteed.

In the fourth round and beyond, there’s nothing to negotiate with the contracts essentially written into the decade-old collective bargaining agreement.

“The third round has always been a unique round. What we negotiate is what we call ‘additional compensation,’” the agent said.

In the third round, the CBA provides a maximum annual contract value for each player. For instance, in the case of Rodgers, those numbers are $660,000 (the league minimum, plus a $923,564 signing bonus) for Year 1, $882,723 in Year 2, $1,105,446 in Year 3 and $1,328,169 in Year 4. The league-minimum base salaries are the aforementioned $660,000 in Year 1, $825,000 in Year 2, $940,000 in Year 3 and $1.055 million in Year 4.

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