Highest Paid Athletes in the NFL

So yesterday New York Giants quarterback, Eli Manning, signed an extension with the Giants with a 6 year $15.3 million starting next season. So when I heard this I was thinking damn he must be the highest paid NFL player. I had to investigate this and I found out he's not, but he does get paid more than his big brother Peyton Manning, quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts.



Well here is the list of the top 6 highest paid NFL players courtesy of http://www.espn.go.com/ :

1. Julius Pepper, Panthers; $16.683M; 1 year left on contract
2. Carson Palmer, Beangles; $16.166.; 7 years left on contract
3. Eli Manning, Giants; $15.285M; 7 years left on contract
4. Nnamdi Asomugha, Raiders; $15.155M; 3 years left on contract
5. Ben Roethlisburger, Steelers; $14.664M; 6 left on contract
6. Peyton Manning, Cotls; $14M; 7 years left on contract

Before Eli signed his uber big contract, Nnamdi Asomugha was the highest paid athlete on average. He agreed to a 3 year, $45.3 million, earlier this year. For people that doesn't know who Nnamdi is, he is an All-Pro conerback of the Oakland Raiders, who has 257 total tackles, 16 sacks, and 10 interceptions for 69 yards. I also thought I should bring up that Nnamdi is partially color blind. " It was determined when I was about 7 years old. It's never really affected my play on the field- I can easily distinguish between light and dark colors. I only have trouble between similar colors- the light ones. They look the same to me. No problems on the field."

Julius Pepper will be the league's highest paid player this season with 1 year $16.7 million contract. If you don't know who Julius Pepper is a defensive end of the Carolina Panthers. He has 344 total tackles, 70.5 total sacks, 4 interceptions for 164 yards, and 1 interception touchdown. Who I must say donated $100,000 to a scholarship program that supports African-American students at his Alma matter North Carolina in February (just had to add that).

And now Eli Manning is among the highest paid players in the league today. I guess big brother needs to step his contract up to beat little brother. I just wish that I was part of the Manning family. Every single one of them are rich. Daddy played in the NFL, Peyton and Eli getting paid top money, and the oldest brother is a doctor. Who wouldn't want to be part of that family. Let's just hope that Eli plays good so we don't feel like they paid him too much for no reason.