Filthy rich: How much money every 2024 SEC 1st-round draft pick will make

The 2024 NFL Draft is off and running with the first round wrapping up Thursday night!

The months-long buildup was finalized with USC’s Caleb Williams becoming the No. 1 overall pick to the Chicago Bears. A historic first-round batch of quarterbacks ensued with LSU’s Jayden Daniels and UNC’s Drake Maye joining a group of 6 QBs to come off the board in the first round.

Overall, the SEC produced 11 first-round picks to once again lead all conferences. Moving forward, the SEC is likely to have a stranglehold on the number of NFL prospects produced with Texas and Oklahoma players joining that list beginning in the 2025 NFL Draft.

Of the 11 first-round picks this season, LSU and Alabama produced 3 players each and Georgia produced 2. Mizzou, Florida and South Carolina produced the other 3 first-round picks.

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Those players are also about to get paid handsomely via their rookie NFL contracts. The total value for those contracts runs from almost $40 million for Daniels (as the No. 2 pick) to around $10 million for Xavier Leggette (the final pick of the first round).

Here are the full contract and signing bonus projections for the SEC draft picks via Spotrac:

• No. 2 — QB Jayden Daniels, LSU, Washington Commanders — $37,748,436 total value; $24,273,408 signing bonus
• No. 6 — WR Malik Nabers, LSU, New York Giants — $29,209,073; $18,062,962
• No. 7 — OT JC Latham, Alabama, Tennessee Titans — $26,046,345; $15,762,796
• No. 13 — TE Brock Bowers, Georgia, Las Vegas Raiders — $18,139,519; $10,012,377
• No. 17 — Edge Dallas Turner, Alabama, Minnesota Vikings — $15,767,470; $8,287,251
• No. 18 — OT Amarius Mims, Georgia, Cincinnati Bengals — $15,372,135; $7,999,735
• No. 23 — WR Brian Thomas Jr., LSU, Jacksonville Jaguars — $14,344,243; $7,252,177
• No. 24 — CB Terrion Arnold, Alabama, Detroit Lions — $14,186,111; $7,137,172
• No. 27 — DE Darius Robinson, Mizzou, Arizona Cardinals — $13,790,766; $6,849,648
• No. 31 — WR Ricky Pearsall, Florida, San Francisco 49ers — $12,357,603; $5,807,348
• No. 32 — WR Xavier Leggette, South Carolina, Carolina Panthers — $10,074,561; $4,146,954

Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey lives in Atlanta and covers SEC football.