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The XFL draft is going down later this week and it appears that we already know what the league is offering players in terms of salary.
According to various reports, the XFL is telling agents that the average player salary will be about $55k.
JUST IN: The XFL has just sent agents of prospective players salary information. With AAF not around, the money is less. First contract is from Dec. 4 to May 31. Guaranteed pay on standard contract is $1,040 a week. Max per week is $4,947, including active roster + win bonuses.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) October 11, 2019
XFL players will make an average salary of $55,000 a year, the upstart league wrote in a memo distributed to player agents.
The memo states that players who are drafted and retained by XFL teams will become full-time employees as of December 4, 2019, and if they remain on a roster they will remain employed through May 31, 2020. Between the base salary, a bonus for being active on game days and a bonus for being on the winning team, the average player will make $55,000 a year.
Once the players salaries were revealed journalists, fans and former players ripped into the new league.
XFL average salary is suppose to be $55,000. Good luck finding top talent for that, you’re better off coming over to Lights Out Xtreme Fighting where there is no roof on the ceiling, and you damn sure can make a lot more that. pic.twitter.com/pBkTFPR8n6
— Shawne Merriman (@shawnemerriman) October 11, 2019
Those XFL salaries are…not optimal.
— mike freeman (@mikefreemanNFL) October 11, 2019
Average salary of an XFL player: $55,000.
Average salary of a coal miner: $60,000.
— mike freeman (@mikefreemanNFL) October 11, 2019
That’s substantially lower than average CFL salary. Minimum in CFL next season will be $65K Cdn which translates to $49,300 (U.S). So CFL minimum will be slightly less than XFL average. Good news. https://t.co/cWIvdfjqtp
— Dave Naylor (@TSNDaveNaylor) October 11, 2019
Lmao with salaries like that, I think it’s already the beginning of the end of the @xfl2020. Most these dudes went to college, they could probably go get paid more doing what they went to school for and not have to worry about brain damage https://t.co/xBLktyIhyz
— Rob Baker TV (@RobBakerTV) October 11, 2019
https://twitter.com/kadeem_gaines/status/1182711310489935873
So SEC players have to take a severe pay cut?
— Dave Hrinak (@DaveHrinak) October 11, 2019
The XFL did have some people defending the league’s salaries.
They have the liquid cash to afford this for 2-3 seasons without any income coming in, too.
While AAF salaries were higher, they relied on outside investment which fell through. https://t.co/i0gHYA1KgS
— Benjamin Allbright (@AllbrightNFL) October 11, 2019
XFL is meant to be the “minor league” for football. Maybe people should compare salaries to the minors and stop complaining about the pay and just grind your way to the NFL https://t.co/30QPd4j9L1
— Cooper Hummel (@CoopHUM) October 11, 2019