As a first-round pick in the 2002 NFL draft, Phillip Buchanon signed a multimillion-dollar contract. And his mom decided that his payday should be her payday, too.
Buchanon has written a book detailing the mistakes he made as a young man whose mom demanded $1 million, which she said was payback for raising him. Now Buchanon has also agreed to speak at the annual NFL rookie symposium, where he’s encouraging rookies not to let their families exploit them, the way he did.
“When I got to the NFL, I was all dollars and no sense,” Buchanon writes on his blog.