{"id":674219,"date":"2026-05-30T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/674219\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:08:08","slug":"shedeur-sanders-has-received-17-7-million-through-the-nflpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/674219\/","title":{"rendered":"Shedeur Sanders has received $17.7 million through the NFLPA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shed no tears for Shedeur Sanders and his 2025 draft-day free fall.<\/p>\n

The recent LM-2 filed by the NFL Players Association reveals that Sanders, through his SS2 Legendary LLC, received more than $17.7 million from the NFLPA from May 2025 through February 2026.<\/p>\n

The number was first reported<\/a> by Daniel Kaplan in an item for Front Office Sports. Per Kaplan, that figure shatters the prior one-year record of $9.5 million, held by Tom Brady.<\/p>\n

PFT has confirmed the number, which appears in the union\u2019s voluminous annual federal filing.<\/p>\n

The document reflects thirteen different payments for \u201croyalties\/player marketing\u201d to SS2 Legendary, totaling $17,712,015. The biggest payment was made on May 16, 2025, in the amount of $9,241,318. The second-largest payment \u2014 $2,086,563 \u2014 was made on January 23, 2026.<\/p>\n

Most player royalty through the NFLPA come from group licensing deals, which compensate players for jersey sales, trading cards, video games, and other collectibles. As one source suggested, the $9.24 million payment to Sanders in May 2025 may have reflected his individual trading-card guarantee \u2014 something that likely would have been negotiated before he slipped from round one to round five in the 2025 draft.<\/p>\n

Regardless, the $17.7 million Sanders made in royalties for one year dwarfs the total, four-year value of his rookie contract ($4.647 million). The payment also exceeds the full four-year contract signed by Packers receiver Matthew Golden ($17.575 million), the 23rd pick in round one last year.<\/p>\n

Sanders could have a large payment in next year\u2019s LM-2, too. In March, Sanders changed his number from 12 to 2; any jerseys that fueled his royalty payments for his first NFL season will need to be replaced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shed no tears for Shedeur Sanders and his 2025 draft-day free fall. The recent LM-2 filed by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-674219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}