There has always been the option to pay players more than £175k, as long as the total limit of £1,825,000 isn't exceeded.

Indeed, but with wire's available pot of money I doubt they wouldn't make use of the marquee player rule if they were paying someone over £175k

Pearson said before a game last year on Humberside that Pritchard would be the highest paid player in the league.

I thought he had. Presumably he's still getting a chunk from the doggies

My guess would be that with the Bulldogs paying part of his salary, Hull have front loaded his contract