Patriots wide receiver Kendrick Bourne doesn’t shy away from the fact that he was a big spender at the beginning of his NFL career.
“When I first got my money, I was like, ‘Bro, I’m going to buy everything,’ ” he recalled recently.
In 2017, after going undrafted out of Eastern Washington, Bourne signed a three-year, $1.67 million contract with the San Francisco 49ers. As a rookie, he received his first taste of life-changing money: $465,000 in salary plus a $5,000 signing bonus.
But the majority of that cash went out as soon as it came in.