Alright, let’s talk about figuring out Brian Hoyer’s career earnings. It’s something I got curious about the other day. You see these guys playing for years, bouncing around different teams, and you just wonder, you know, how much they’ve actually banked over that time.
So, my first step was pretty straightforward. I just popped open my browser and typed something simple into the search bar, probably like “Brian Hoyer total career earnings” or “how much has Brian Hoyer made in NFL”. Pretty standard stuff.
Got a bunch of results back, naturally. Mostly sports news sites and some sites that specialize in player contracts and salaries. Places like Spotrac or OverTheCap usually pop up for this kind of thing. I tend to look at those first because they often break things down year by year.
Digging into the numbers…
I started clicking through a couple of the more reputable-looking sources. What I found was pretty interesting. You don’t just see one big number right away. Instead, you see lists:
- His base salaries for each year
- Signing bonuses he received
- Any roster or workout bonuses he might have earned
It’s not always super simple. Contracts can have incentives, money can be guaranteed or not, and sometimes the reported numbers vary slightly from site to site. You kind of have to piece it together.
So, I looked at a couple of different sites, the ones I mentioned earlier. I compared the yearly breakdowns they provided. Mostly, they lined up pretty well, which is a good sign. You see his journey from the Patriots, then bouncing to teams like the Cardinals, Browns, Texans, Bears, 49ers, back to the Patriots, Colts, then Patriots again, and finally the Raiders. Each stop came with a different contract and different earnings.
I basically mentally added up the totals shown on these sites. You have to remember, these are usually the reported earnings based on the contracts signed. It doesn’t always perfectly capture every single dime, like maybe some small incentives met or missed, but it gives you a really solid ballpark figure.
Putting it all together
After looking through the contract details listed on a couple of reliable sports finance sites, I could see the pattern. Signing bonuses here, veteran minimum salaries there, sometimes a slightly larger deal depending on the team’s QB situation at the time.
By adding up all those yearly figures from his long career, starting way back when he first entered the league as an undrafted free agent, you get a pretty good idea. I cross-referenced between two main sites specializing in this stuff, and they were pretty close in their final tallies. It definitely showed that even as a journeyman backup for a lot of his career, sticking around the league for that long adds up to some serious money over time. It was quite the process tracking all those different contracts across so many teams!
