{"id":816270,"date":"2026-03-17T01:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/816270\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T01:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:32:11","slug":"former-bengals-player-nearly-leads-nfl-in-performance-based-pay-bump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/816270\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Bengals player nearly leads NFL in performance-based pay bump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 16, 2026, 9:06 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Here\u2019s a former <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> player fans don\u2019t think about often: Nick Scott.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Scott joined the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" data-autotag=\"6d3e484d-5133-4c06-a871-967f8646390b\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Bengals<\/a> in 2023, played <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/S\/ScotNi01.htm\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">46 percent<\/a> of the snaps and was an overlooked mark in the disaster of a season that eventually led to a coordinator change a year later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Quietly, though, Scott has enjoyed a nice resurgence since his one season with the Bengals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">And now, Scott was one of the players getting some extra money thanks to the NFL\u2019s performance-based pay bump. He ranks fourth overall in the NFL in this area, good for a $1.26 million pay increase in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It\u2019s a little fun fact item and not much else. Scott has been with the Carolina Panthers for two seasons now and last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/nfl\/players\/nick-scott\/49012\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ranked as the 36th safety in the NFL<\/a> on a list of 98 at PFF. It is, if nothing else, another example of how off the rails things got for the Bengals defense over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 16, 2026, 9:06 p.m. ET Here\u2019s a former Cincinnati Bengals player fans don\u2019t think about often: Nick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95878,7,6,13078,95905,95882,95913,95896,95888,97271,95906,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-816270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sstssportsnflbengals","12":"tag-sstsnbengals","13":"tag-tagamerican-football","14":"tag-tagcincinnati-bengals","15":"tag-tagnational-sports","16":"tag-tagnfl","17":"tag-tagnick-scott","18":"tag-tagoverall-positive","19":"tag-tagsports-news","20":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116241940819559435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}