Russell Earned $100,000 Per Completion, and $5.6 million per Win

[ChosenOne]

Russell Earned $100,000 Per Completion, and $5.6 million per Win

 

As he seeks an employment situation better than the one he had in Oakland (pro: the possibly deranged owner really believed in him; con: everything else), I really don't want to pile on JaMarcus Russell(notes).

 

But Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times went to the trouble of crunching JaMarcus's financial numbers alongside his actual on-field production. So, just as one final recap of the mercifully dead JaMarcus Russell era in Oakland, I'll pass these along. Here's how JaMarcus was compensated for his production with the Oakland Raiders:

 

Roughly $100,000 per completion and $5.6 million per win.

 

For comparison's sake, Tom Brady's(notes) total salary last year was $8,007,280, which comes out to $21,583 per completion. Peyton Manning(notes) pocketed $14,005,720 last year, and made $35,638 per completion. They're all ridiculous numbers, but no one's are more ridiculous than those of JaMarcus Russell.

 

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[Warren2ThaG]

It's a disgrace, really nasty.

[NomarFachix]

I posted this somewhere earlier (Facebook, maybe), but if Peyton Manning was paid per completion what Jamarcus has made, he would be nearing $5 Billion dollars right now.

[Jenneral]

All their numbers are ridiculous, not just Russell's.

[OSUBucksfan09]

Man, what I would give to be able to play a sport for millions of dollars. , I have to go to college and get a real job instead to hopefully make a little bit more then Russell earned per completion.