It’s the most glamorous job in professional sports — starting quarterback for an NFL franchise. It’s an incredibly tight knit community too, for the simple fact it’s so hard to get into the club.
There’s only a total of 32 total each year, and from that list there are four or five who seem to dominate the news cycles and attention of media and fans.
The ultra-elite quarterbacks are paid like tech CEO’s (minus the stock options) and are as famous as movie stars.
The Top-5 richest QB’s of all time have a combined net worth of $1.56 billion, and I can almost promise you that you won’t be able to guess who’s No. 1 on the list…
5. Drew Brees (New Orleans Saints)
$160 million
Drew Brees is worth $160 million dollars, which means he’s been paid one dollar for every NFL record he broke durning his incredible career. Or that’s how it seems.
The recently retired qb of the New Orlean’s Saints will be moving directly into the broadcast booth, having signed a deal with NBC Sports a year before he retired.
He made $25 million his final season with the Saints, and will be paid roughly $6 million annually with NBC.
4. Steve Young
$200 million
Steve Young was a highly-paid quarterback for his era. The 59-year old former San Francisco Forty Nine made $50 million as an athlete.
It was after his playing career where he really started making bank. Young transitioned nicely into the finance world, co-founding the private equity firm Huntsman Gay Global Capital, and becoming filthy rich in the process.
3. Peyton Manning
$250 million
Peyton Manning was named the MVP of the NFL five separate times during his career, and for a decade-and-a-half there wasn’t a more visible athlete in the U.S, thanks his annual deep playoff runs and the multitude of TV commercials he starred in.
Currently he’s still on TV a lot, working for ESPN and doing Nationwide Insurance commercials, but he doesn’t have to get hit nearly as much, which is nice.
2. Tom Brady
$260 million
Brady and Manning battled it out on the field for years, and now TB12 has passed him in net worth. Winning seven Super Bowls, playing into your mid-40’s and owning a lot of real estate and businesses all over the world has helped him do that.
Fun fact: Brady’s net worth is dwarfed by his wife Gisele Bundchen, who clocks in at a cool $400 million.
- 1. Roger Staubach
- $600 million.
Staubach played for the Dallas Cowboys from 1969-1979. In his rookie year he made $25,000, and because he played collegiately at the Naval Academy, he didn’t enter the league until he was 27-years old, and had completed his military commitment. He had three kids at the time, and knew he had to have a side hustle.
He went on to win two Super Bowls and was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but his real success came after his playing days, as he made a killing in corporate real estate.
His mentor was a man named Henry S. Miller, one of the largest and most successful commercial real estate legends in Texas.
Staubach was quite the student, and sits on a $600 million fortune now that makes him the riches quarterback of all time.
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