The Minnesota Vikings just agreed to a $64,000,000 four-year contract extension with former Notre Dame Football team captain -- Harrison Smith! The contract guarantees $26.38 million -- over the next eight months Harrison will be paid $22.5 million, the most over for a safety in NFL history.
Harrison is now the 2nd highest paid former Notre Dame student-athlete of all-time!
Congrats Harrison!
Here's a look at the TOP 29 current and former Notre Dame athletes (football, basketball, baseball and hockey) who have been (and will be) paid the most as a professional athlete:
- Ronnie Stanley: $136,145,183 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2025
- Harrison Smith: $127,666,546 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2026
- Jeff Samardzija: $116,341,666
- Zack Martin: $100,285,531 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2024
- Jaylon Smith: $75,095,997 -- not guaranteed contract to 2025
- AJ Pollock: $68,841,944 -- guaranteed contract to 2023
- Anders Lee: $66,044,038 -- guaranteed contract to 2026
- Troy Murphy: $66,000,000
- Stephon Tuitt: $64,760,551 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2022
- Kyle Rudolph: $62,936,853 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2023
- Golden Tate: $56,337,672 -- current free agent
- Kyle Rudolph: $50,897,098 -- current free agent
- Romeo Okwara: $47,258,474 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2023
- Bryant Young: $44,000,000
- Justin Tuck: $43,248,463
- Quenton Nelson: $38,010,393 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2022
- John Sullivan: $35,800,027
- Jerome Bettis: $35,122,500
- Jeff Faine: $34,456,892
- Will Fuller: $34,243,347 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2022
- Kyle Palmieri: $30,192,154 -- guaranteed contract to 2021
- Matt Carroll: $29,537,032
- Tim Brown: $28,432,686
- Laphonso Ellis: $27,939,000
- Tyler Eifert: $26,310,317
- Joe Montana: $26,000,000
- Ian Cole: $25,949,694 -- guaranteed contract to 2021
- Pat Garrity: $22,788,021
- Craig Counsell: $22,086,667