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
Why don’t the demmarxists ever complain about or call-out professional athletes for making too much money?
To paraphrase, “You’ve got a career as a professional athlete … you didn’t build that“
This is a monumental reach.
everything the dems do is a reach, a reach for your money, a reach for your property, a reach for your freedom
You can believe whatever you like, but it still seems like quite the reach. Neither side has ever reached for my property or freedom. Both collect taxes.
I legitimately got second hand embarrassment reading that comment.
Right. We hear bitter complaints about CEO’s salaries when they produce washing detergent and gas for our cars and food, but nothing about these astronomical amounts given to entertainers.
You eat washing detergent? Seems weird.