Dawgs By Nature
Wealthy family, social media star means lots of opportunity despite fall in NFL draft
Back in the day, rookie players in the NFL made the least amount of money. Veterans treated them bad, and bossed them around in practices as well as off the field. Veterans did not associate with “rooks” at restaurants or bars. Most rookies never even saw the field for a minimum of two seasons.
Just the way it was.
But now? A team’s starting quarterback can be a rookie. So can the left tackle and one of the cover cornerbacks. An EDGE pass rusher picked in the first round is expected to grab one of the starting defensive end spots.
But how many rookie purchase a custom Rolls-Royce before their very first training camp? If you said a Cleveland Browns rookie, then you are correct. If that guess is the player Cleveland selected in the first round, fifth overall, you would be mistaken.
It is QB Shedeur Sanders, the Browns fifth-round draft pick.
Over this past weekend, the delivery of a custom Rolls-Royce Phantom estimated to be worth a minimum of half a million dollars became known via the video below.
The Browns signed Sanders to a four-year, $4.6 million contract, which includes an annual salary of $1.16 million and a signing bonus of $447,000.
The green Rolls-Royce arrived from Advanced Auto Transport out of Southlake, Texas to Deion Sanders’ Canton, Texas estate, to an area that already had four trucks, one SUV, one car, one custom golf cart, plus an RV parked outside two buildings that house other vehicles.
Editor’s note: The arrival of the car begins at 3:45
Trimmed with an orange pinstripe and black wheels, the four-door Rolls-Royce is not his first. At the University of Colorado, Sanders drove a black and gold Rolls-Royce Cullinan, which arrived with custom accessories. He also owned a Rolls-Royce Ghost.
Shedeurs’ brother Shilo, who signed an undrafted rookie free agent contract with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and drives a Tesla Cyberbeast, was doing FaceTime with Shedeur when the vehicle arrived.
Upon seeing the new ride via his brother’s cell phone, Shedeur stated:
“That’s a winning car.”
Shedeur will compete with three other quarterbacks in Browns camp this year: Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, and fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel out of Oregon. It is projected that the Cleveland coaching staff will only retain three quarterbacks on their final roster, with at least one signal-caller on their practice squad.
It may seem odd that a rookie taken in Round 5 would be spending his money on such a lavish expenditure, but a view into his father’s estate and their possessions is simply another toy tossed into the arena for this family.
Sponsorships have already started coming Shedeur’s way when he was featured in a recent Gatorade commercial. So, although his father is wealthy, Shedeur’s money-making opportunities are already beginning to surface. This is even though he may become QB3 or could be released.
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