NFL star Brock Purdy earned less than 16 college football players this year.
Brock Purdy signed a four-year contract with the San Francisco 49ers in 2022, which turned out to be one of the biggest deals in the league today.
Purdy, 24, was drafted with the last pick in the seventh round of the 2022 NFL Draft, so he will receive a lower salary for his first four years in the league. Typically, seventh-round picks have trouble staying in the NFL for multiple seasons and rarely become MVP candidates like Purdy. In the preseason, Purdy outperformed Trey Lance, the No. 3 pick in the 2022 draft, and Purdy has been a starter all year.
This made Purdy the starting quarterback for the No. 1 NFC seed in the NFL Playoffs. According to NFL.com, he ranks third in yards (31) and fifth in yards (4,280) among all quarterbacks in the NFL this season.
However, he will be paid $870,000 in salary by his team this season, which is significantly less than his playoff QB rivals on other teams. For example, Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes will make $44.5 million this season, Bills QB Josh Allen will make $28 million, and rookie CJ Stroud will also make $24 million. And his teammate Lance is his backup? He has a four-year, $34 million contract with the team.
What’s even more surprising? Purdy is paid less than 16 college football players this season, according to On3’s proprietary NIL algorithm, which is based on NIL transaction data, performance, impact and exposure.
Rounding out the top five are the University of Colorado’s Sheder Sanders ($4.7 million), Texas’ Archie Manning ($2.8 million), Colorado’s Travis Hunter ($2.3 million), Texas’ Quinn Ewers ($1.7 million) and Alabama’s Jalen Milo ($1.7 million). $1.5 million) was included. ).
The NCAA began allowing college athletes to earn name, image and likeness (NIL) money starting in 2021. At this time, student-athletes won a decades-long debate over the fairness of games they played that earned them millions of dollars and yet they were not compensated. The institutions with which they are registered.
See also: These college athletes are earning more than $1 million per year in NIL.
NIL deals for college athletes can be done by organizations to attract prospective students to colleges, but they can also be done in off-field endorsement deals.
In addition to his salary, Purdy makes money through on-field endorsements with brands including Alaska Airlines, Toyota and Buffalo Wild Wings, but terms of those deals were not disclosed.
His average annual contract value of $934,253 ranks 89th among all NFL quarterbacks, according to Spotrac.
In October 2023, while living in one of the highest tax states in California, Purdy still had a roommate, “one of my offensive linemen,” and “I still drive my Toyota Sequoia,” he told TODAY.
The 49ers play the Green Bay Packers in the NFL divisional playoff round on Saturday at 8:15 PM EST.
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