Pat McAfee is about to make so much more money than he made in the NFL
The Pat McAfee Show has agreed to a deal with FanDuel that will net the show nearly $30 million per year.
The Pat McAfee show is in for a hefty payday with FanDuel agreeing to a four-year deal worth $30 million annually, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic and Stadium.
The deal keeps FanDuel as the sole odds provider of the show.
The show launched in February of 2017, featuring current and former professional athletes Glenn Robinson III, Matt Hasselbeck and Dan Dakich in its debut episode. McAfee called it “very, very, very, very, very small” at the time. Five years, and 554 episodes later, McAfee and his team are set to cash in and plan to further evolve as a show.
“We’ll be doing this show for the time to come,” McAfee said in a video announcing the deal. “We’ll be doing it hopefully in a bigger way. We’ll be doing it in our own way. We’ll still have all of our other partners. They’re giving us money to go on live show events and make live-shows happen around the country so we can go out and meet everybody. I can’t wait for it.”
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McAfee spent eight seasons with the Indianapolis Colts as the team’s punter before retiring from the NFL in 2017. He netted just north of $15 million over his playing career. His show will now bring in twice that amount annually from FanDuel alone.