Shedeur Sanders, through his SS2 Legendary LLC, received more than $17.7 million from the NFLPA for royalties and player marketing between May 2025 and February 2026. The figure dwarfs the previous one-year record of $9.5 million held by Tom Brady.
The payments came from group licensing deals that compensate players for jersey sales, trading cards, video games, and other collectibles. The largest payment of $9.24 million in May 2025 may have reflected Sanders' individual trading-card guarantee, likely negotiated before he slipped from round one to round five in the 2025 draft. somethingsdifferent.biz
