Philip Rivers' NFL return comes with key family incentive as he tries helping Colts to playoffs

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Philip Rivers’ Indianapolis Colts contract comes with more than just a healthy sum for the four games he intends to play with the franchise that needed him at quarterback.

Rivers shocked everyone in the football world when he answered a call from the Colts, the last NFL team he played for in 2020 before hanging up his cleats for good — at least that’s what he believed then.

Rivers came out of retirement to sign a one-year deal worth the veteran minimum of $1.255 million, according to Pro Football Talk. That deal, though, is reportedly prorated over the next four games, with Rivers’ real take-home pay at $278,889.

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Indianapolis Colts quarterback Philip Rivers on the sideline during the game against the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium on Dec. 6, 2020. (Troy Taormina/USA Today Sports)

But there’s more than just the six-figure sum that Rivers is getting by coming back to the NFL. In fact, it might be more important for a father of 10 children.

Rivers’ health insurance from the league is also back, and it was set to expire with his five years post-career being up at the end of this season.

Now, Rivers’ expiration date has been reset to five more years, meaning the league’s health insurance plan that he was on will be going through 2030. Pretty sweet deal for his family, too.

COLTS' PHILIP RIVERS HOPES EMOTIONAL NFL RETURN PROVIDES INSPIRATION

Rivers was emotional after his first game back, which ended in a loss to the Seattle Seahawks by way of walk-off field goal. Blake Grupe had drilled