SPECIAL No Free Lunch feed drop: The Hidden Costs of NFL Rookie Contracts w/ Vita Vea
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4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
No Free Lunch is a new podcast in The Athletic podcast network. Hosted by former NFL star Ndamukong Suh, No Free Lunch talks to athletes and experts about how the most successful people in sports manage their money and grow their wealth.
On this episode, Ndamukong talks with his former teammate and current Tampa Bay Buccaneer Vita Vea. They discuss what goes into rookie contracts - specifically the cost of being a young player in the NFL. From fines and rookie dinners to helping family and offseason training— players can have a lot of expenses. Ndamukong and Vita also discuss the importance of building the right financial team to help with budgeting and investing.
Host: Ndamukong Suh
Executive Producer: Grace Piro Delia
Producer: Danny Sellers
Editor: David Caputo
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| 0:00.0 | Joining us now, it is the host of the no free lunch podcast here on the athletic podcast network. |
| 0:09.3 | It's Indycan Sue. |
| 0:09.9 | Domican, how you doing, man? |
| 0:11.2 | I'm doing good, boss. |
| 0:12.1 | How are you? |
| 0:12.9 | I'm doing very well. |
| 0:13.9 | I appreciate you taking the time to do this. |
| 0:15.7 | I have really enjoyed the show up to this point, excited for more people to learn about it. |
| 0:20.8 | Before we dig into the podcast specifically, I want to ask you a specific memory of mine |
| 0:26.0 | and whether or not you have any recollection of it. |
| 0:27.8 | In the fall of 2009, the Nebraska football team came to the University of Missouri |
| 0:33.2 | for a night game on a Thursday or so. |
| 0:38.0 | The weather was disgusting. |
| 0:40.2 | Mizzou was ranked at the time, |
| 0:42.1 | and I think that there was a decent amount of enthusiasm |
| 0:44.3 | about that team with Blaine Gabbard as a starter. |
| 0:47.3 | And you and that Nebraska team came in |
| 0:49.4 | and absolutely stumped on that Blaine Gabbard-led offense. |
| 0:53.4 | You had a big game. |
| 0:54.2 | I think you caused a fumble. |
| 0:55.1 | I think you had a sack. |
| 0:56.4 | But the part of the game, I'm curious if you remember this, the power went out in the |
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