Study Hall: The Inner Workings of a NFL Contract
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🗓️ 11 June 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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In this Study Hall NFL linebacker Brandon Copeland breaks down NFL contracts in detail.
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| 0:00.0 | You have a very interesting story and we was reading it in the last couple of days. |
| 0:05.2 | So you said your first contract, right? |
| 0:06.6 | Creming if I'm wrong, you made your contract with 1.2 million. |
| 0:09.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:10.4 | Well, by time it was all said, done, you got like 35, 40,000, right? |
| 0:14.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:15.4 | So yeah, can we just kind of break that down? |
| 0:17.1 | Because to me, it's interesting as far as NFL players because you have an off season. |
| 0:21.9 | So a lot of people don't aren't familiar like, do you get paid on an off season or how |
| 0:25.1 | frequent do you get paid? |
| 0:27.0 | And then there's a thing called a jock tax when you go to different states and you get |
| 0:29.9 | tax differently. |
| 0:30.9 | It's not all guarantee. |
| 0:31.9 | So yeah, can you kind of just break that down? |
| 0:35.4 | Yeah, man, there's layers to that. |
| 0:37.7 | So yeah, so the way I think of the NFL is nothing is guaranteed unless you have certain |
| 0:48.0 | stipulations within your contract and all that type of stuff, right? |
| 0:51.3 | So if you're one of those players, which is, you know, more players are seeing that, that's |
| 0:55.9 | a great thing and a blessing to have, but when you see these big contracts, you know, |
| 1:01.0 | Russell Wilson, 140 million, I can't remember how much guarantee, maybe 65. |
| 1:05.9 | Yeah, something. |
| 1:06.9 | Little 65, right? |
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