{"id":306361,"date":"2026-05-23T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306361\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T22:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:18:09","slug":"which-dallas-athletes-appear-on-forbes-highest-paid-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306361\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Dallas athletes appear on Forbes’ highest-paid list?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday Forbes released its\u00a0annual list<\/a> of the highest-paid sports stars in the world. While Dallas sports had a few representatives, it also had a surprising omission, and a couple stars who\u00a0formerly represented Dallas, as well.<\/p>\n

The yearly list comprises athletes from eight different sports across 18 countries, though 29 of\u00a0the 50 hail from the United States.<\/p>\n

Starting with a true Dallasite, Highland Park’s Scottie Scheffler<\/a> ranks at No. 16 on the list with total earnings of $84.6 million in 2025. The World’s No. 1 golfer is the No. 2 golfer on Forbes’ list, with LIV Golf’s Jon Rahm coming in at No. 7 on the list. Fellow LIV golfer and SMU product Bryson DeChambeau<\/a> appears in a tie for 47th on the list with earnings of $55 million.<\/p>\n

In the former Dallas star category, the top NFL representative on the list is none other than former Cowboy Micah Parsons<\/a>, the highest-paid non-quarterback in the NFL in 2025. Parsons made $86.4 million last year according to Forbes, ranking two spots ahead of Patrick\u00a0Mahomes at No. 15.<\/p>\n

Former Mavericks star Luka Doncic comes in at No. 33 on the list at $60.9 million, though\u00a0that doesn’t even get him in the top 10 among NBA players. He’s behind all the usual suspects (LeBron, Steph, Giannis…) but also a few smaller-market guys like Anthony Edwards and Devin Booker. He’s due for another pay bump next year, his second full season in LA, so he’ll likely hop up a few spots on next year’s list.<\/p>\n

And if he hasn’t been mentioned by now, you might have already figured out the omission. Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott isn’t in the top 50 despite his No. 4 ranking on last year’s list and his $60 million contract in 2025. Eight QBs appear on Forbes’ list, but the Cowboys’ isn’t one of them. Like Doncic, he’s due for a pay bump next season, so perhaps he’ll reappear high up once again.<\/p>\n

No. 1 on the list \u2014 for a fourth-straight year \u2014 is soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, listed on Forbes as having earnings of up to $300 million in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday Forbes released its\u00a0annual list of the highest-paid sports stars in the world. While Dallas sports had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,3080,91092,88841,90174,88776,98844,88229,101521],"class_list":["post-306361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-nba","tag-tp-golf","tag-tp-luka-doncic","tag-tp-bryson-dechambeau","tag-tp-dak-prescott","tag-tp-micah-parsons","tag-tp-nfl","tag-tp-scottie-scheffler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}