Pat Connaughton just agreed to a new three year agreement with the Milwaukee Bucks that puts him in "rare air" among former Notre Dame student-athletes.
Here's a look at the TOP 25 current and former Notre Dame athletes (football, basketball, baseball and hockey) who have been (and will be) paid the most as a professional athlete:
- Ronnie Stanley: $132,131,825 -- not guaranteed, contract 2025
- Jeff Samardzija: $127,625,000 -- current free agent
- Zack Martin: $102,329,796 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2024
- Kyle Rudolph: $77,897,708 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2023
- A.J. Pollock: $76,397,500 -- guaranteed contract to 2023
- Jaylon Smith: $75,022,000 -- not guaranteed contract to 2025
- Anders Lee: $71,894,038 -- guaranteed contract to 2026
- Golden Tate: $70,837,672 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2022
- 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
- John Sullivan: $40,050,021
- Jerome Bettis: $35,122,500
- Jeff Faine: $34,456,892
- Kyle Palmieri: $34,442,154 -- guaranteed contract to 2021
- Tim Brown: $28,432,686
- Pat Connaughton: $27,165,642 -- guaranteed contract to 2023
- Ian Cole: $26,049,694 -- guaranteed contract to 2021
- Joe Montana: $26,000,000
- Quenton Nelson: $24,148,910 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2021
- Ian Cole: $23,049,694 -- guaranteed, contract to 2021
- Craig Counsell: $22,086,667
- David Phelps: $19,308,813 -- free agent
