Bills safety Jordan Poyer was a bit of a late bloomer, performance-wise. Drafted by the Eagles in the seventh round in 2013, Poyer broke out with Buffalo in ’21, his age-30 season. He was named first-team All-Pro and followed that up with a Pro Bowl campaign in ’22.
With the recent success has come a spike in compensation. The soon-to-be free agent made $5.6 million in salary in 2022, slightly more than his salaries in ’19, ’20 and ’21 combined. Thus, Poyer has learned relatively late what NFL players typically realize from the outset: the only certainties in life are death and taxes.
"A lot of people ask me, ‘Oh, if it wasn’t Buffalo, where would you go?’ I kind of ponder the question every once in a while," Poyer said Saturday on his podcast, The Jordan Poyer Show. "I would love to go to a state that doesn’t take half my money. It’s crazy to me how taxes work. Some people will say, ‘You’re already making X amount of money.’ Taxes play a big part in all of our lives."
