{"id":682959,"date":"2026-06-04T01:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T01:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/682959\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T01:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T01:52:08","slug":"deion-sanders-shedeurs-massive-nflpa-royalty-payment-wasnt-from-jersey-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/682959\/","title":{"rendered":"Deion Sanders: Shedeur&#8217;s massive NFLPA royalty payment wasn&#8217;t from jersey sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent federal LM-2 filing from the NFL Players Association including a stunning revelation regarding Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders. In his first year in pro football, Shedeur <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/shedeur-sanders-has-received-17-7-million-through-the-nflpa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">earned $17.7 million<\/a> in royalty payments.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Front Office Sports, Colorado coach Deion Sanders (who also is Shedeur\u2019s dad) <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mJ-9CQIaHcs&amp;t=93s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">addressed the record-setting number<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if people really dug into that,\u201d Deion said, explaining that the payment wasn\u2019t the result of jersey sales.<\/p>\n<p>So if it wasn\u2019t jersey sales, what drove the number?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA tremendous deal with the NFLPA,\u201d Deion said. \u201cA tremendous deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deion previously mentioned \u201clicensing\u201d and \u201ccards.\u201d Some believe the number was largely driven by a trading-card deal negotiated before Shedeur fell to round five in the 2025 draft.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, Shedeur shattered Tom Brady\u2019s prior one-year record of $9.5 million, establishing a new bar that will not be easy to catch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recent federal LM-2 filing from the NFL Players Association including a stunning revelation regarding Browns quarterback Shedeur&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-682959","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\/682959","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=682959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}