If you make it into the NFL and survive for a season or two, you’re going to make a little bit of money—or, for the average person, a lot of money. Just for some perspective, the minimum salary any rostered player could make in 2023—a rookie college free agent—is $750,000. It will go up a bit every year. So at a minimum, if you’re in the league for two years, you’re making a million and a half bucks.
Make that kind of money and you’re going to attract all kinds of negative attention. In Cleveland, evidently, there is growing belief that Browns players are being targeted by an organized crime ring after three players on the roster have been burglarized in a very short period of time over the weekend and into Monday.