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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
They all don't make millions. There are a lot of guys who over a 3 year career likely don't make a million in career earnings. Flying down the field and involved in collisions on special teams trying to make tackles. Better than they'll make doing anything else, but those guys will need to have some sort of career after football. Those are the guys most at risk to say they're okay and go back in a game when they really shouldn't.
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Agreed, but in those 3 years most of those players won't likely have paying jobs higher than 30 - 40K a year without football. So the amount made in those 3 years could equate to what they made in a lifetime.
If you really want to get down to it. 95% of the guys that don't make it past college got no compensation and that football is at quite a high level as well.
No risk means you have no chance of getting off that special team unit one day. I'm sure 90%+ of those players on special teams are hoping to get there shot at more than just special teams.