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Peyton Manning hasn’t looked in an NFL game since 2015, but the legendary quarterback hauled in $3.4 million from NFL-connected marketing and royalties all the plot via 2019, main all earners, in accordance to The Athletic’s Daniel Kaplan.
That decide narrowly eclipsed Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady, who earned true under $3 million. Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott ($2.6 million), New York Giants working relief Saquon Barkley ($2.3 million) and Pittsburgh Steelers large receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster ($2.2 million) rounded out the tip 5.
Kaplan speculated Brady would possibly per chance well search a bump in 2020 assuming fans settle his new No. 12 Buccaneers jersey.
Manning would possibly per chance well need retired in March 2016, but he maintains a real presence in the final public sphere.
He’s a business pitchman and has partnered with ESPN for the ESPN+ programs Detail and Peyton’s Places. The long toddle Hall of Famer also teamed with Tiger Woods to beat Brady and Phil Mickelson in Capital One’s “The Match: Champions for Charity.”
“It’s miles a real testomony to his enchantment and staying vitality that despite the entire lot these years in retirement, that he soundless makes the listing,” Russ Spielman, president of sports activities marketing at GSE Worldwide, told Kaplan. “… He’s got different visibility soundless, and staying vitality, and of us like him.”
