Saturday, February 9, 2019

Notre Dame's Highest Paid Athletes -- All Time


Here's a look at the TOP 21 former Notre Dame athletes (football, basketball, baseball and hockey) who have been paid the most as a professional athlete :
  • Jeff Samardzija:  $127,625,000 -- guaranteed contract to 2021
  • Zack Martin:  $102,308,800 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2024
  • A.J. Pollock:  $76,397,500 -- guaranteed contract to 2023 
  • Troy Murphy:  $66,000,000 
  • Stephon Tuitt:  $64,760,551 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2022
  • Harrison Smith:  $63,666,546 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2021
  • Bryant Young:  $44,000,000
  • Justin Tuck:  $43,248,463 
  • Kyle Rudolph:  $41,797,098 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2019  
  • John Sullivan:  $40,050,021 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2019
  • Jerome Bettis:  $35,122,500
  • Jeff Faine:  $34,456,892
  • Golden Tate:  $33,978,849 -- free agent 
  • Kyle Palmieri:  $30,192,154 -- guaranteed, contract to 2021
  • Tim Brown:  $28,432,686
  • Joe Montana:  $26,000,000
  • Ian Cole:  $23,049,694 -- guaranteed, contract to 2021
  • Ronnie Stanley:  $20,484,331 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2019
  • David Phelps:  $19,233,850 -- guaranteed, contract to 2020
  • Michael Floyd:  $19,080,535 -- free agent
  • Rocket Ismail:  $18,000,000

Here's the four former Notre Dame athletes who signed biggest contracts in their era:

Notre Dame's highest paid athlete of all-time, Jeff Samardzija was just asked what advice he would give Oklahoma's two-sport star Kyler Murray -- here's that story. 

Here's what the current former Notre Dame student-athletes are getting paid in their respective sports:

LINK:  NFL CURRENT CONTRACTS -- NOTRE DAME 

LINK:  MLB CURRENT CONTRACTS -- NOTRE DAME 

LINK:  NHL CURRENT CONTRACTS -- NOTRE DAME