NFL Player, Quarterback Contracts Total
Value Avg./Year
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Dak Prescott $240,000,000 $60,000,000
Joe Burrow $275,000,000 $55,000,000
Jordan Love $220,000,000 $55,000,000
Trevor Lawrence $275,000,000 $55,000,000
Tua Tagovailoa $212,400,000 $53,100,000
Jared Goff $212,000,000 $53,000,000
Justin Herbert $262,500,000 $52,500,000
Lamar Jackson $260,000,000 $52,000,000
Jalen Hurts $255,000,000 $51,000,000
Kyler Murray $230,500,000 $46,100,000
Deshaun Watson $230,000,000 $46,000,000
Kirk Cousins $180,000,000 $45,000,000
Patrick Mahomes $450,000,000 $45,000,000
Josh Allen $258,000,000 $43,000,000
Matt Stafford $160,000,000 $40,000,000
Aaron Rodgers $112,500,000 $37,500,000
Derek Carr $150,000,000 $37,500,000
Baker Mayfield $100,000,000 $33,333,333
Geno Smith $75,000,000 $25,000,000
Gardner Minshew $25,000,000 $12,500,000
Sam Darnold $10,000,000 $10,000,000
Caleb Williams $39,486,058 $9,871,515
Bryce Young $37,955,074 $9,488,769
Jayden Daniels $37,746,650 $9,436,663
Drake Maye $36,639,764 $9,159,941
C.J. Stroud $36,279,246 $9,069,812
Zach Wilson $35,150,680 $8,787,695
Trey Lance $34,105,258 $8,526,315
Anthony Richardson $33,994,030 $8,498,508
Jacoby Brissett $8,000,000 $8,000,000
Tyrod Taylor $12,000,000 $6,000,000
Marcus Mariota $6,000,000 $6,000,000
Michael Penix Jr. $22,882,636 $5,720,659
J.J. McCarthy $21,854,796 $5,463,699
Jarrett Stidham $10,000,000 $5,000,000
Drew Lock $5,000,000 $5,000,000
Andy Dalton $10,000,000 $5,000,000
Justin Fields $18,871,952 $4,717,988
Bo Nix $18,613,166 $4,653,292
Joe Flacco $4,500,000 $4,500,000
Davis Mills $8,116,000 $4,058,000
Jameis Winston $4,000,000 $4,000,000
Mac Jones $15,586,340 $3,896,585
Kenny Pickett $14,067,904 $3,516,976
https://overthecap.com/position
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Carson Wentz $3,325,000 $3,325,000
Jimmy Garoppolo $3,178,750 $3,178,750
Case Keenum $6,250,000 $3,125,000
Mason Rudolph $2,870,000 $2,870,000
Easton Stick $2,667,500 $2,667,500
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"The total payroll for the 2024 NFL season is
$10.54 billion across all 32 teams,
with a salary cap of
$255.4 million per team: "
___
"The National Basketball Association today announced that the Salary Cap has been set at
$140.588 million
for the 2024-25 season
The Tax Level for the 2024‑25 season is
$170.814 million. "
___
"Michael Jordan became the first NBA player to sign a contract worth over $20 million and $30 million in a season (1996–97) and earned $33,140,000 in the 1997–98 season, setting the record for the largest 1-year contract in NBA history, and held the overall record for over 20 years. Kobe Bryant became just the second player to eclipse $30 million when the 2013–14 season began.[1] LeBron James became the third in the 2016–17 season.
Stephen Curry signed a record 5-year contract worth $201 million in 2017 with a starting payout of
$34,682,550 in the 2017–18 season, setting a new single-season record in earnings. He became the first player to eclipse $40 million in the 2019–20 season. After signing a 4-year contract extension worth $215 million in 2021, Curry went on to become the first player to eclipse
$50 million in the 2023–24 season.
Damian Lillard
is expected to be the first NBA player to eclipse
$60 million in the 2026–27 season,
having signed a contract worth $63,228,828."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-paid_NBA_players_by_season
As of 2024, the highest-paid Major League Baseball (MLB) players are:
Shohei Ohtani: Los Angeles Dodgers, $70 million
Max Scherzer: Texas Rangers, $43.33 million
Justin Verlander: Houston Astros, $43.33 million
Aaron Judge: New York Yankees, $40 million
Jacob deGrom: Texas Rangers, $37 million
Gerrit Cole: New York Yankees, $36 million
Mike Trout: Los Angeles Angels, $35.54 million
Stephen Strasburg: Washington Nationals, $35 million
Anthony Rendon: Los Angeles Angels, $38.57 million
Corey Seager: Texas Rangers, $35 million
***
"Jim Thorpe
was a professional athlete who played in Major League Baseball, the NFL, and basketball, and was also
the first president of the American Professional Football Association:
Baseball:
In 1913, Thorpe signed a three-year contract with the New York Giants for
$6,000 per season,
which was the highest salary ever paid to a major league rookie at the time."
James Francis Thorpe
(Meskwaki: Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as "Bright Path"; May 22 or 28, 1887 – March 28, 1953)
was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist.
A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics.
Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports,
he won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics (one in
classic pentathlon and the other in decathlon).
He also played football (collegiate and professional), professional baseball, and professional basketball."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe
"He lost his Olympic titles after it was found he had been paid for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics, thus
violating the contemporary amateurism rules.
In 1983, 30 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
restored his Olympic medals with replicas, after ruling that the decision to strip him of his medals fell
outside of the required 30 days."
"Thorpe has received numerous accolades for his athletic accomplishments.
The Associated Press ranked him as the
"greatest athlete" from the first 50 years of the 20th century"
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The Sac and Fox Nation
(Meskwaki language: Othâkîwaki / Thakiwaki or Sa ki wa ki) is the largest of three federally recognized tribes of
Sauk and Meskwaki (Fox) Indian peoples.
Originally from the Lake Huron and Lake Michigan area,
they were forcibly relocated
to Oklahoma in the 1870s and are predominantly Sauk.'
"Thorpe's father, Hiram Thorpe, had an Irish father and a Sac and Fox Indian mother"
"Thorpe ran away from school several times. His father sent him to the Haskell Institute, an Indian boarding school in Lawrence, Kansas, so that he would not run away again"
"he was coached by Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner, one of the most influential coaches of early
American football history."
"Thorpe began his athletic career at Carlisle in 1907 when he walked past the track and, still in street clothes, beat all the school's high jumpers with an impromptu 5-ft 9-in jump."
"Carlisle's 1912 record included a 27–6 victory over the West Point Army team.[4] In that game, Thorpe's 92-yard touchdown was nullified by a teammate's penalty, but on the next play Thorpe rushed for a 97-yard touchdown.
Future President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who played against him in that game,
recalled of Thorpe in a 1961 speech:
Here and there, there are some people who are supremely endowed.
My memory goes back to Jim Thorpe.
He never practiced in his life, and he could do anything better than any other football player I ever saw..
***
Thorpe was so versatile that he served as Carlisle's one-man team in several track meets.
According to his obituary in The New York Times, he could run the 100-yard dash in 10 seconds flat; the 220 in 21.8 seconds; the 440 in 51.8 seconds; the 880 in 1:57, the mile in 4:35; the 120-yard high hurdles in 15 seconds; and the 220-yard low hurdles in 24 seconds.
He could long jump 23 ft 6 in and high-jump 6 ft 5 in
He could pole vault 11 feet; put the shot 47 ft 9 in; throw the javelin 163 feet; and throw the discus 136 feet."
***
"He placed in the top four in all ten events, and his Olympic record of 8,413 points stood for nearly two decades.
Even more remarkably, because someone had stolen his shoes just before he was due to compete,
he found a mismatched pair of replacements, including one from a trash can, and won the gold medal wearing them.
Overall, Thorpe won eight of the 15 individual events comprising the pentathlon and decathlon"
"1917, Iva and Thorpe bought a house now known as the
Jim Thorpe House in Yale Oklahoma, and lived there until 1923. "
"At the time Thorpe won his gold medals, not all Native Americans were recognized as U.S. citizens
(the U.S. government had frequently demanded that they make concessions
to adopt European-American ways to receive such recognition).
Citizenship was not granted to all American Indians until 1924."
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