The Most Powerful Sports Agents 2025
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🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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A string of big deals gives Scott Boras up to $244 million in commissions, but the entire top 20 is swinging for the fences, with a combined $32 billion in contracts under management.
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| 0:00.0 | Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing Bonus Story of the Week. Today on Forbes, the most powerful |
| 0:07.0 | sports agents 2025. The 15-year $765 million contract Juan Soto signed with the New York Mets in |
| 0:16.4 | December, gave the 26-year-old slugging outfielder the all-time mark for the largest deal in professional |
| 0:22.3 | sports. But the agent who negotiated that landmark contract didn't even need it to maintain his |
| 0:28.5 | place atop the financial leaderboard. Scott Boris, founder and president of the Southern |
| 0:34.3 | California-based Boris Corporation, is once again the most powerful |
| 0:38.4 | sports agent in North American team sports, with commissions of up to $244 million on an estimated |
| 0:45.0 | $4.89 billion in active playing contracts under management as of December 31, 2024. |
| 0:52.1 | That record-setting commissions figure represents a 28% increase from the last |
| 0:57.0 | time Forbes published the agent ranking back in 2022. Forres has now landed in the top spot |
| 1:03.6 | nine times across the 10 editions of the Forbes list. The list made its debut in 2013 and is |
| 1:10.0 | sorted by the maximum commissions that agents can earn |
| 1:12.5 | based on the standard fee percentage in each league. The loan exception was in 2019, |
| 1:18.2 | when Boris dropped behind soccer super agent Jonathan Barnett. However, Forbes has confined its |
| 1:24.2 | 2022 and 2025 rankings to North America, setting aside Europeans like Barnett, |
| 1:30.0 | who was now retired and has been accused of rape and trafficking. |
| 1:33.7 | Barnett has denied the claims. |
| 1:36.1 | On this year's list, Jeff Schwartz, CEO of Excel Sports Management, and a powerful NBA agent, |
| 1:42.8 | remains number two with $113 million in maximum commissions |
| 1:46.6 | on an estimated $2.84 billion in active contracts. |
| 1:51.3 | Rich Paul, a fellow basketball agent and the founder of Clutch Sports Group, |
| 1:55.6 | rounds out the top three with $111 million in maximum commissions on an estimated $2.77 billion in active contracts. |
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