Bryce Harper's 13-year, $330 million contract with the Philadelphia Phillies has set the benchmark for athletes' money-making aspirations in all sports, and it could hit close to home for Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Kyler Murray.
Murray faced a public fork in the road when he had to choose between sticking to his original plan of playing in MLB for the Oakland A's—whodrafted him No. 9 overalllast summer—or trying his hand in the NFL.
He chose football, and while at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, the 2018 Heisman Trophy winner commented on Harper's record-breaking deal, per Albert Breer of The MMQB: "Everyone makes a big deal of him making $300 million.