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Controversial opinion: Retire after your rookie contract


biggie.

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Let's face it: football can really mess you up physically and mentally. I say if you're smart with your money and didn't blow it on stupid stuff you don't need, I'd retire once my first contract is up or after one or two franchise tags. Even with the rookie wage scale, you're making plenty of money where you can live comfortably.

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Rookies don't make that kind of money tbh. If you consider how rare talent that can still around multiple years is, the rookie payscale is massively underpaid. It would be really rare to not only be talented enough to be in the NFL, but then to luck into another opportunity to make anywhere near the kind of earning potential.

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Forget mansions, private jets, IG models. You get a divorce. There goes half of it. You want to send your kids to the best schools? And then if they go to grad school. One of your kids ****s up and kills someone with their car you wanna keep them out of prison? You have some situation where you’re in the hospital for like a month, that could cost a mill. You want your parents to die at home instead of hospice or a nursing home? **** up and get another divorce(no one thinks it’s going to happen to them.) A few million dollars can disappear easily. 
 

And then there’s the fact that a lot of players just like playing football and want to accomplish things instead of just living comfortably.

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