Guess Who: "this Guy" Is The Highest Paid Player In The League, And You Have Probably Never Heard Of Him

[Brokenbad]

Of course we all know who he is:

Aaron Rodgers, Eli Manning and Tom Brady got many of the NFL headlines a year ago, but it was a mostly unknown, Carolina Panthers defensive end Charles Johnson, who led the way in overall pro football compensation. Johnson earned a stunning $34 million during the 2011 season, the first of a six-year, $72 million contract.

People will all know his name soon enough.

According to Yahoo.com (Source:http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/dish/201205/surprising-player-tops-nfl-salaries)

[chknwing]

R U WEETODDID?

[CLG]

[R0CKnR0LLA]

lol hurney magic

[mav1234]

thats what $30 million signing bonus does. kinda deceptive story considering he is only making something over 4 million this year I think.

[GolfRasta]

How in the hell did he make 34mil this year? I didn't realize his contract was loaded that heavily front-end. I knew D-Lo's contract was mostly front-end money. Hurney is a genius...HA!

[Gallagher]

$34 million last year? That's about 3 3/4 million dollars per sack. Just for comparison if Jared Allen got that rate he would have been paid over $82 million dollars last season.

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

lol hurney magic

slarly kapp genieus

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

we should have just lowballed him at a time when several teams that hadn't just gone 2-14 were courting him.

[Ivan The Awesome]

[fieryprophet]

Look at it this way: he's only getting $7.6 million/year for the next five years.

[Darknight]

Front loaded contract much?

[heyyall]

Jesus fuging christ, too much for a guy who had only 9 sacks and didn't play the last game because he had "back problems". Which was a fuging lie because he went to party for New Years. He better get fuging 12 sacks this year.

[Wither]

Maybe with all that money he can buy his way into the backfield.