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You do realize that over half of the kids who have declared early for the draft
ugaforever
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Won't be drafted or make a practice squad. Unless you are elite you should stay and get your degree. Besides if you are in the 2% that gets drafted, your life span in the Not For Long league is 3-5 years.
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My guess is most early entry players will be drafted somewhere over 7 rounds. It's a case by case thing. over 3 years on an active roster a kid would make a minimum total of around 1.7 million and 3.1 million if they last 5 years. That is a life time of earnings for many people. Also most contracts would be reworked if a player is good enough to make it 5 years. David Andrews went undrafted and signed with NE as a FA, he signed a fat contract extension last summer.
To me that's alot of money. I feel like I'd be grinning ear to ear, riding the pine while making only half that much.
Bulldog, that is a lot of money for the average college grad with 10 years in his or her field. It's life changing for a 21 year old coming from a middle to lower class economic background.
Ultimately it's about how they handle the windfall, indulgence/ bling vs wise investments.
My friend’s brother played for Green Bay and he said it wasn’t the contract dollars that lasted forever, but the longer you play the more vested you are in the NFL pension. You make a pretty good bit of coin after your playing days.
Assuming you stay long enough to get a pension.
@ugaforever The numbers are 35% for the 2018 draft (for 2017 players). That's 37/106 that declared early that went undrafted plus 17 Jrs that completed their degree requirements early.
Not more than 50%, but I agree with you. It's still a big risk.
Many of the Juniors, it's a no-brainer. Roquan Smith and Saquon Barkley for example. And had PFF grades at around 90. You also had true Juniors that had PFF grades under 80, many of which went undrafted. Trenton Thompson and Teuhema, OG with SE Louisiana were prime examples of this outcome.
Ill take a couple 100k a year honestly for 3 years and if I dont make it past that it sets me up to go back to school finish and move on with my life starting a job while having a couple hundred thousand.
May be ignorance but what is an agents usual cut off of a players contract?
Depends on agent and player’s $ of contract. 4-10%
How do you become an agent? Lol
I don't believe there is any degree that you have to have, though many are lawyers I believe. You do have to be certified by the NFLPA I believe.
Most agents are mini-celebs themselves.
Much like a powerful law firm it’s built on years of luck and results with The Who’s-who types.
Read a book on Hollywood agencies. One or more branched off to cover sports. Don't know if the agencies are still predominant, but would seem that a tie-in into entertainment would be the way to ensure that one has access to commercials, etc. So, if you want to be an agent with clients, either get hired by an agency, or be pals with one or more sports stars and force an agency to make you an offer (to have access to the real, after playing time goodies). Chicken - egg.