Here are the NFL’s ten highest-paid players for 2021
With the regular season set to kick off Thursday, a record signing bonus and hefty endorsement deals have helped football’s top stars cash in mightily despite a free-agency clamp-down.ak Prescott entered the off-season with no active contract and a broken ankle that had ended his 2020 season in Week 5.
Quarterbacks dominate once again, taking seven of the ten spots in the ranking, including Brady’s Super Bowl LV rival Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs and the Green Bay Packers’ Aaron Rodgers, who land at Nos. 3 and 4 with $44.8 million and $33.4 million, respectively. A non-quarterback—San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams—rounds out the top five with $33.3 million.
, the league’s 32 teams committed a combined $4.6 billion in extensions and free-agent contracts with $2.5 billion in guaranteed money .. After signing a ten-year, $450 million extension with the Kansas City Chiefs last year—far and away the NFL’s biggest contract ever—Patrick Mahomes had the deal restructured this off-season to help his team create space under the new salary cap, with $21.7 million becoming a bonus for 2021. The quarterback, who turns 26 in two weeks, started ramping up his endorsements after winning Super Bowl LIV in February 2020 and counts Adidas, State Farm and Oakley among his partners.
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