(01-14-2019, 12:24 PM)Dimson Wrote:

(01-14-2019, 12:07 PM)JNev Wrote: Jeff Samardzjiza will have earned $127,675,000 after 2020 and he's not even that great. Seems like if you can make it in baseball its the way way better way to go, not even considering the lack of traumatic brain injury concerns

Well Jeff is a pitcher and not a QB. Kyler is a infielder and a QB. As a QB he can make as much, if not more than he can as an infielder.

I know this is moot since he's "committed" to football, but Murray is an outfielder not an infielder, and both IF and OF can make as much as pitchers, especially if they're actually good - Miggy Cabrera (IF), Cano (IF), Trout (OF), Cespedes (OF) are all paid between 25 million - 35 million per year.  Assuming he's able to become a star in either league, he won't make more as a football player than as a baseball player.  Main difference is that as a baseball player he'd have to spend several years in the minors and depending on how he does - may not ever make it to the big leagues.  In fact, as hit or miss as the NFL draft is, baseball's draft is even worse and 1st round picks often don't pan out.  He's smart to try football first with the early guaranteed money that he'll get.  If he doesn't make it he can always fall back on a baseball career.

---