Players on the winning conference in Sunday’s Pro Bowl Games will receive $92,000 apiece. That’s almost as much as the players on the losing team in next week’s Super Bowl LIX will receive.

The Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles will square off in Super Bowl LIX on Feb. 9. Players on the winning team will get paid $171,000 each. Players on the losing team will receive $96,000 apiece.

This is the second straight season that the losers of the Super Bowl will receive more money than the winners of the Pro Bowl Games. It hadn’t been that way.

Under the current collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and its players, Pro Bowl winners got $74,000 in the 2020 season, $80,000 in 2021 and $84,000 for 2022. Super Bowl losers got $65,000 for the championship game of the 2020 season, $75,000 for 2021 and $82,000 for 2022.

One year ago, though, the players on the San Francisco 49ers got $89,000 apiece after losing in the Super Bowl. The winners in the Pro Bowl Games got $88,000 apiece.

While it appears winning the Pro Bowl has been more lucrative than losing in the Super Bowl in the past – and nearly is this season — that’s true when only those games are compared. But the players who reached the Super Bowl have been picking up checks along the way to the NFL championship game.

This season, the Chiefs had a bye as the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs and the Eagles were the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoffs.

On Wild-Card Weekend, Philadelphia defeated the Green Bay Packers 22-10, and because the Eagles were the NFC East champions, each player received $54,500. As the No. 1 seed in the AFC, Kansas City got a first-round bye, but each of its players received $49,500 for the Wild-Card Weekend – the amount a non-division winner would receive for the first round.

In the Divisional Round, each player on the Eagles and Chiefs received $54,500, and for the conference-championship games, they got $77,000.

Winners and losers get paid the same in the conference playoffs (except wild-card qualifiers and teams with byes get $5,000 less per player than division winners in the first round).

As in the Pro Bowl Games, Super Bowl LVIII includes a monetary incentive to win, although the $171,000 for winners and $96,000 for losers is a departure from the NFL’s usual twice-as-much payday for the winners still reflected in bonuses for the Pro Bowl Games, where the losers will receive $46,000 on Sunday.

In combined postseason money, each member of the Eagles will have earned $357,000 during the postseason if Philadelphia wins Super Bowl LIX and $282,000 if it doesn’t. For the Chiefs, the playoff haul would be $5,000 fewer for each player in both cases.

That’s in straight game checks, before taxes, and doesn’t include any incentives a player might have in his contract that reward a bonus for making the Pro Bowl Games or reaching the Super Bowl.

The Pro Bowl Games resume at 2 p.m. CST Sunday at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. ABC and ESPN will televise the competition.

After Thursday night’s events, the NFC leads the AFC 14-7 at the Pro Bowl Games. The winning conference of each skill competition gets three points. The points earned by each conference will be the starting score for the flag-football game.

Pro Bowl Games participants with Alabama football roots include:

• Detroit Lions strong safety Brian Branch (Alabama)
• Houston Texans wide receiver Nico Collins (Clay-Chalkville)
• Pittsburgh Steelers free safety Minkah Fitzpatrick (Alabama)
• Detroit Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs (Alabama)
• Baltimore Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey (Hoover, Alabama)
• Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs (Alabama)
• Cleveland Browns wide receiver Jerry Jeudy (Alabama)
• Green Bay Packers free safety Xavier McKinney (Alabama)
• Denver Broncos cornerback Patrick Surtain II (Alabama)
• New York Jets defensive tackle Quinnen Williams (Wenonah, Alabama)

Two Alabama alumni – Philadelphia Eagles guard Landon Dickerson and Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry – were chosen for the Pro Bowl Games but are not participating.

Super Bowl LIX kicks off at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 9 at Caesars Superdome. FOX will televise the game.

Players from Alabama high schools and colleges on the rosters of the Super Bowl teams include:

Kansas City Chiefs

• Practice squad: Chris Oladokun, quarterback, Samford
• Practice squad: Justyn Ross, wide receiver, Central-Phenix City
• Practice squad: Montrell Washington, wide receiver, Samford

Philadelphia Eagles

• Reed Blankenship, safety, West Limestone
• Practice squad: Khari Blasingame, fullback, Buckhorn
• Reserve/injured: James Bradberry, cornerback, Pleasant Grove, Samford
• Landon Dickerson, guard, Alabama
• Reserve/injured: Jack Driscoll, offensive lineman, Auburn
• Bryce Huff, defensive end, St. Paul’s Episcopal
• Jalen Hurts, quarterback, Alabama
• Practice squad: Nicholas Morrow, linebacker, Huntsville
• Eli Ricks, cornerback, Alabama
• DeVonta Smith, wide receiver, Alabama
• Tyler Steen, offensive lineman, Alabama
• Reserve/injured: C.J. Uzomah, tight end, Auburn
• Reserve/injured: Byron Young, defensive tackle, Alabama

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.