Good news: those players lucky enough to make a UFL roster will get paid (and by the looks of it, I suspect training camp will be a lot like little league tryouts: you show up, you get a uniform). Bad news: salaries are approximately one-tenth what an undrafted second-year NFL player will pull down next season. The UFL is offering one-year, $35,000 contracts. (By comparison, the Steelers' Patrick Bailey, a special-teamer entering his second season after signing as a free agent out of Duke, will make roughly $385,000 in 2009.) Added bonus: there will be a chance to earn an extra $15,000 through incentives. So, right, somebody's getting a Kia Rio.
There are exceptions, of course. Via NFL Network's Jason La Canfora:
I also wrote on Tuesday that starting quarterbacks could earn above this scale. According to two agents who have had contact with the UFL, the number being tossed around to agents for maximum starting QB compensation was $100,000. Gary was nice enough to check that out and said the base salary for QBs will be $10,000 per week, which is $60,000 for the season (thanks, Rachel). Gary also pointed out that the league will be paying for housing for the players.There are worse ways to make a living. Like, say, by being a punter, kicker or long snapper: they'll be making a cool $25,000. On the upside, their apartments will be free. So there's that.
* Slightly = Substantially
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-01-2009 @ 10:36PM
ajinthematrix8 said...
There still getting paid to play a game, so I dont think they'd be too dissapointed...lol
I hope this league makes it though
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7-02-2009 @ 1:13AM
imshortyk said...
There's a team in Orlando . . . I should go try out XD Make more dough than I am now, haha.
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7-02-2009 @ 1:26PM
Dr Huxtable said...
thanks. this is exactly the type of info I was looking for. I think I'll go buy a bunch of your jerseys now.
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7-02-2009 @ 1:47PM
imadmongoli said...
its a six game season, even 25k in six weeks is pretty good. I doubt there off-season is more than 4 weeks leading up to it to.
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7-02-2009 @ 10:39PM
Stoney said...
Matter of fact. I saw a group of them today in front of this Sports Authority. When ever they saw someone in a pickup truck drive up and was wearing a hat with an NFL team logo on it they all ran up to surrounded the truck. They usually had one guy that could speak good "West Coast" or maybe a little "Three Four" approach the driver. He would ask if any of them had a legal "40 time" and most of the time they would call their agent and he would negotiate from there. I spoke to one of the poor fellows in broken "shotgun" and he told me they play as often as possible and send their extra money home to their families that they had to leave early on "campus". These are some brave souls. Most of them can't read or write. They haven't had to work ever so they have no communication skills. But at least they have their six kids and their wives dorm room to go to. They have had a tough twenty years. God be with them.
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7-03-2009 @ 12:00PM
Kango Kid said...
I can not tell a lie, before today I never heard of this "UFL". They are forever starting up these NFL minor league teams only for them to go defunct inside of 2-3 seasons, I hope this one doesn't follow suit. I wonder where The USFL would be today if they would just been satisfied being a Summer football league instead of trying to challenge The NFL in Court to play along side of them in the Fall...those silly rabbits. Hail to those New Jersey Generals
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