Mississippi State football alums continue to cash in.
The Boneyard
Steve Robertson
4.4 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Former Mississippi State football star Darius Slay became the NFL's highest paid cornerback of all-time on Thursday following a trade and sign deal between the Detroit Lions and the Philadelphia Eagles.
Slay is among the highest earning Bulldog athletes of all time. Today, we look at what it all means and how much many State football alums are bringing home these days.
Another top ten list today and this one might cause some emotional reactions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Boneyard with Steve Robertson. |
| 0:02.4 | As always, I am your good friend and host Steve Robertson here on the Hump Day edition of the yard. |
| 0:08.5 | Man, a lot to talk about. |
| 0:10.7 | We got Darius Slay pulling in some bank. |
| 0:14.7 | We're going to look at what that does to the earning potential and the earnings to date of Mississippi State players in the |
| 0:24.2 | National Football League. We've got a very controversial, and I'm sure it shouldn't be |
| 0:29.9 | controversial, because my opinion is the correct one. Got a very, let's say, thought-provoking |
| 0:36.9 | top 10 list today. |
| 0:40.5 | I kind of enjoy in doing these top 10 lists because it's promoted a lot of discussion. |
| 0:44.2 | I've had people reach out to me, say, Steve, you're totally wrong about this, |
| 0:49.4 | even though they're wrong. |
| 0:51.6 | Or they say, hey, Steve, you nailed this, you got that. |
| 0:53.6 | I've enjoyed doing it. |
| 0:54.6 | I'm a music guy. Music is always on. Whenever I'm not recording or writing or whatever, a lot of time I'm writing. I'm listening to music. Music is a huge part of my life, and it should be yours as well. I think music is one of the things that will help us sustain ourselves through this isolation and warranty. |
| 1:12.3 | I wish there was new music. |
| 1:16.2 | And I'm glad to see a lot of these bands are going to do some Facebook Live type stuff to kind of entertain us, which is really cool. |
| 1:20.4 | It's always nice to be able to get to interact with the people that bring us joy. |
| 1:25.5 | And so excited to see some of that. |
| 1:28.5 | But this top 10 list, you know, I've thrown you guys a couple softballs. |
| 1:32.2 | I've done 80s metal. |
| 1:33.6 | And I've had a few people come at me on social media. |
| 1:35.9 | And I disagree. |
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