Whether you think he's earned the money is irrelevant.
Fact is, Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford is among the world's Top 10 highest-paid athletes.
Forbes unveiled its latest ranking of the 100 highest-paid athletes and placed Stafford, who has earned $57.5 million in salary/winnings and $2 million in endorsements over the past year, at No. 10.
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The list is compiled based on earnings over the past 12 months.
Stafford signed a 5-year, $135-million contract with the Lions last year; at the time, that made the 30-year-old the highest-paid player in the NFL.