Professional football players can earn quite a good amount of money even if they are second-string and chances are they earn more than most lawyers do. If they are a star player, they can definitely rake in cash. Still, a lot of NFL players end up losing everything and going bankrupt after they retire. It is either they spend all their money on mansions and fast cars or lose it in bad (and at times, illegal) business investments. Keep reading to learn about NFL players who had earned millions of dollars while they were still playing pro football, but ended up with nothing after they retired.
NFL Players Who Ended Up Totally Broke
Tiki Barber
Tiki Barber overcame a lot of obstacles in his life and eventually became a top Giants running back. He was really good at playing football, so he earned a significant amount of money when he played in the NFL. After he retired, he landed a job as a sports analyst at NBC, where he was definitely making a solid living. During that time, however, he left his wife and married an intern with whom he had an affair with. This move ended up costing him his job with NBC due to a morality clause that was in his contract.
Tiki Barber
Raghib Ismail
Another NFL player that lost it all is Raghib “Rocket” Ismail, who played for two years in the Canadian football league before going on to play for various teams in the NFL for another ten years. Throughout his career, he earned around $20 million according to estimates. When he retired, he decided he wanted to try his hand at business. Ismail made a lot of various investments after his career in the NFL, but most of them turned out to be poor investments and caused him to lose almost all of his earnings.
Raghib Ismail
