Football Players Get Paid

Generally speaking the National Football League is one of the world’s favorite sport. Most people think Football player makes more then enough but is that true? In reality Football players get paid less than the four major sports in an average salary. NBA players make around $5.15 million, MLB player’s makes roughly about $3.2 million, NHL player will make $2.4 million, and an NFL players make $1.9 million per year.

The money the National Football League players are paid are based on age, union policy, draft rank, and contract. Some salaries includes bonuses, insurances, a savings plan, and retirement fund and annuity program. NFL players and their dependents receive 100 percent coverage for dental and medical costs. Different NFL positions

Inside of a contract there is a few more things are added on to build up the contract finacially. Inside the contract it’s a base salary, signing bonus, workout bonus, cap hit and dead money or dead cap. Workout bonus are bonuses paid out for completion of a team’s offseason workout program. These programs now run for, I believe, 9 weeks, starting in late March and running through May. Teams can not require mandatory participation for offseason workouts so they often pay large bonuses to entice players to participate. Base salaries is the money actually earned for playing during the NFL season. Minimum pay is based on your experience in the NFL. Experienced is based on earning a “credited season”, which is defined as more or less being on the active 53 man roster for at least 3 games. The salary itself is earned in 17 weekly installments and does not require participation in a game to be earned. Signing bonus gives the player the more financial security, it offers protection from being cut. Cap hit is the total money a player witll earn in a regular salary over the life of the contract divided by the years that’s effective. Dead money is the pay later portion. Dead money is the unused money that the player don’t run

Earl Thomas signed a 4 year contract that’s worth about $40,000,000 with the Seattle Seahawks. His signing bonus was $9,500,000. His contract guarantees $25,725,000 and a promising annual salary of $10,000,000. This year Thomas earned a base salary of $5,500,000. His cap hit was $7,400,000 while his dead money value is $13,100,000. In 2016, at age 27 his base salary would be $8,000,000, signing bonus would be $1,900,000, cap hit would be roughly be about $9,900,000, and a dead cap of $5,700,000.

In my opinion I think that NFL players aren 't paid enough because they literally risk their life to play a game to entertain people. I mean, who would risk your risk life to entertain a crowd? Maybe they should get paid less, but they overall deserve money. Perhaps they should lower their cost, and not get paid 41 times more as public servers, but they technically count as public servers, don 't they? They serve the public by giving the public something to watch and