Who is the Most Paid Quarterback in the NFL?

The highest-paid player in the NFL is Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who makes an average of $33.5 million per year.

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Tom Brady

Tom Brady is an American football quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He is one of the most decorated players in NFL history, winning a record seven Super Bowls, five NFL MVP awards, and three Super Bowl MVP awards. He has also been selected to 14 Pro Bowls. Brady is the only player in NFL history to win a Super Bowl in his first season as a starter, and he is also the only quarterback to win a Super Bowl in his fourth season.

New England Patriots

Tom Brady is an American football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He is one of only two players to win five Super Bowls (the other being defensive end Charles Haley), and he is the only player to win them all playing for one team. Brady has also been selected to 14 Pro Bowls, more than any other quarterback in NFL history.

Contract

Tom Brady signed a two-year contract extension with the New England Patriots on Monday, the team announced. The deal is worth $70 million, with $58 million guaranteed, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

The extension, which keeps Brady under contract through 2021, has a no-trade clause and a no-tag clause, the source said. Brady will make $23 million in 2019 and 2020 and $30 million in 2021.

Aaron Rodgers

Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s National Football Conference (NFC) North division. It is the third-oldest franchise in the NFL, dating back to 1919, and is the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States. Home games have been played at Lambeau Field since 1957.

The Packers are the last of the “small town teams” which were common in the NFL during the 1920s and 1930s. Founded in 1919 by Earl “Curly” Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun, the franchise traces its lineage to other semi-professional teams in Green Bay dating back to 1896. Between 1919 and 1920, the Packers competed against other semi-pro clubs from around Wisconsin and Michigan, before joining the American Professional Football Association (APFA), now known as the National Football League (NFL), in 1921. Although Green Bay is by far the smallest major league professional sports market in North America, Forbes ranked the Packers as the world’s 26th most valuable sports franchise in 2016, with a value of $2.35 billion.

The Packers have won 13 league championships, more than any other team in NFL history, with nine pre–Super Bowl NFL titles and four Super Bowl victories. The Packers won the first two Super Bowls in 1967 and 1968 and were runners-up of Super Bowl II. They then qualified to play in five more Super Bowls through 2016 winning three more times after that: XXXI over New England Patriots; XLV over Pittsburgh Steelers;and most recently XLVIII over Carolina Panthers . The team has long enjoyed a widespread fan base throughout Wisconsin as well as support from former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson when he served as chairman of the Republican National Committee; many Packer fans joined him when he later advocated for successfully bringing Summerfest to Milwaukee., one of America’s largest music festivals In 2015 Forbes estimated that each Packer home game provides an estimated boost to local tourism expenses valued at about $15 million annually aside from benefits related to stadium construction and operations such as increased employment

Contract

His initial rookie contract was worth $22.97 million over five years, with $13.7 million in guarantees, and a signing bonus of $7.7 million. The contract made him the fourth highest-paid quarterback in the NFL, behind Donovan McNabb, Daunte Culpepper, and Michael Vick. In 2008, he became the first quarterback in NFL history to have a base salary of over $10 million per year. In 2009, his salary increased to $12 million per year. In 2010, Rodgers signed a six-year extension with the Packers worth $65 million, with $20 million paid out in signing bonuses

Russell Wilson

Russell Wilson is an American football quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He has played in the NFL since 2012 and has led the Seahawks to eight playoff appearances, four NFC Championship titles, and one Super Bowl title. Wilson has also been selected to six Pro Bowls. He is the highest-paid player in the NFL.

Seattle Seahawks

Russell Wilson is an American football player who is currently the quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks. He was drafted in the third round of the 2012 NFL Draft by the Seahawks, and has since gone on to lead the team to multiple Super Bowl appearances, winning one in 2013. Wilson is considered to be one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL, and is currently the highest-paid player at his position.

Contract

As of 2019, Russell Wilson is the most paid quarterback in the NFL, with an average annual salary of $35 million. He signed a four-year, $140 million extension with the Seattle Seahawks in April 2019 that includes a $65 million signing bonus. In total, Wilson has earned $167 million in his career so far.

Wilson’s extension made him the highest-paid player in NFL history at the time, surpassing Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ four-year, $134 million extension that he signed in 2018. Wilson’s average annual salary of $35 million per year is also the highest average annual salary for any player in NFL history.

However, Wilson’s reign as the highest-paid player in NFL history did not last long. In September 2019, just five months after he signed his extension with the Seahawks, Wilson was surpassed by Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who signed a 10-year contract extension worth up to $503 million. Mahomes’ contract includes a guaranteed sum of $477 million, making it the richest contract in NFL history in terms of overall value.

Ben Roethlisberger

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is the highest-paid player in the NFL, according to Spotrac.com. The website projects that Roethlisberger will have a salary cap hit of $41.4 million for the 2019 season. He is scheduled to make a base salary of $17 million, with a $2 million signing bonus and a $22.4 million roster bonus.

Pittsburgh Steelers

The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Steelers compete in the National Football League, as a member club of the league’s American Football Conference North division. Founded in 1933, the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC.

In contrast to their status as perennial also-rans in the pre-merger NFL, where they were the first team to lose three playoff games and appeared in just one Super Bowl, the Steelers of the post-merger era are one of football’s most successful franchises. Since the 1970 AFL–NFL merger, they have posted the NFL’s best record while capturing eight AFC Championships and playing in 15 AFC title games. Since 1982, when they made their first appearance on Monday Night Football, they have been televised nationally on ABC during that program’s NFL coverage (either on Monday nights or Sunday nights) more times than any other team.

Contract

Ben Roethlisberger signed a four-year, $87.4 million contract extension with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2015 that made him the highest-paid player in NFL history at the time. The deal included a $31 million signing bonus and an average annual salary of $21.85 million. It also included a no-trade clause and a club option for a fifth year.

Drew Brees

Drew Brees is the most paid quarterback in the NFL. He is currently signed to a five-year, $100 million contract with the New Orleans Saints. In addition to his salary, he also receives a $37 million signing bonus. He is set to earn an annual salary of $15 million.

New Orleans Saints

Drew Brees is an American football quarterback for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He had a stellar college career with the Purdue Boilermakers, leading them to the Rose Bowl in 2000. He was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the first round of the 2001 NFL Draft and spent five years with the team. In 2006, he joined the Saints and has been their starting quarterback ever since. In 2009, he led them to their first Super Bowl victory in franchise history.

Brees is currently the highest-paid quarterback in the NFL, with an annual salary of $25 million. He has set numerous NFL records, including most passing yards in a season (5,476 in 2011), most passing touchdowns in a season (55 in 2013), and most career passing yards (74,437). He is also a two-time Super Bowl champion, having won Super Bowl XLIV with the Saints in 2009 and Super Bowl LII with the New England Patriots in 2018.

Contract

Brees signed a five-year contract extension with the Saints on March 13, 2012, worth up to $100 million. The deal was structured so that $40 million was paid to Brees in the first year. The remaining $60 million were “dummy years” used for salary cap purposes. In reality, the contract gave Brees an extra year added onto his current deal, through 2017, with a player option for 2018. Signing bonuses and other guarantees eventually brought the total value of the extension to $103 million.

Matthew Stafford

Matthew Stafford is the most paid quarterback in the NFL with an annual salary of $27 million. He is followed by Kirk Cousins at $26 million and Drew Brees at $25 million.

Detroit Lions

Matthew Stafford is an American football quarterback for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Lions first overall in the 2009 NFL Draft. Stafford also holds NFL career records for the most passing attempts and completions in a season.

In his first season as starter, Stafford threw for 20 touchdown passes and led the Lions to a 2-14 record. In 2010, he improved to 10-6 as starter, leading the team to its first playoff berth since 1999, along with winning a road playoff game for the first time since 1957. Stafford again led the team to another 10-6 record in 2011, but did not lead them to the playoffs. During the 2014 season, Stafford set an NFL record for most comebacks in a season with 8

Contract

In 2013, the Detroit Lions made Matthew Stafford the highest-paid quarterback in NFL history, signing him to a three-year contract extension worth $53 million. The total value of the extension, which runs through the 2017 season, is $135 million.

Stafford’s average annual salary of $27.5 million is the highest in NFL history, ahead of Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck, who signed a four-year extension worth $120 million in 2016 that included a then-record $24.594 million average salary per year.

Stafford’s deal eclipsed the previous record for average annual salary set by Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who signed a five-year extension in 2013 that averaged $22 million per season.