Vikings linebacker Cameron Smith will opt not to pursue another NFL season, instead announcing his retirement (Instagram link) Wednesday night. This comes after the young defender underwent open-heart surgery in 2020.
A COVID-19 test last summer revealed Smith needed the operation, which ended his season before it started. Although Smith went forward with a procedure that would allow him to continue his NFL career, he will retire nearly a year later.
Smith returned from the surgery and was cleared to return in late May. He participated in Minnesota’s first preseason game Saturday, recording a tackle in the Vikings’ home loss to the Broncos. A concussion, however, ended Smith’s day early.
The 24-year-old defender played in five regular-season games with the Vikings, who selected him in the fifth round of the 2019 draft. As a backup and special-teamer in 2019, Smith notched eight tackles. He logged special teams snaps in both of Minnesota’s playoff games that year.
Despite the Vikings waiving Smith before last season, he wound up on their IR list. The team paid his full $675K base salary while he recovered from the operation. Smith was a four-year contributor at USC, topping out at 112 tackles (11 for loss) during his 2017 junior season.
That $675k is a game changer. Live in a cheap area, buy rentals and stock. Let it all ride for 15 years and he’ll be set.
Luckily that was his 2nd year of pay too. Sad thing is he had to put 9.8% state income plus 3% in agent fees and federal taxes of 37%. So there is half his money gone right there.
Blue states are expensive. 9.8% to have the privilege of ‘living there’?
Living is just expensive regardless of blue or red. The highest sales taxes come from red states so let’s leave politics out of it cuz neither party truly cares about us.
RED states get more Federal money than BLUE states. They pay less into the system and take more out. Yes, RED states are cheaper, offer less services, and steal money from half of America. This is why their taxes are lower.
Not like BBC KC fans who booed because BLM was Working on his first game of the year last season add pay high taxes before ever play for for them
This picked up my tv sorry ☝️
I like the optimism that arty is showing but an inflation calculator I chose at random online, indicates that in 15 years, a person would have to grow that $675k into $990,368 to maintain the same buying power. That’s a 46.72% increase required just to maintain the status quo.
Warren Buffet said if you bought coke/pepsi and never took out a dime and always reinvested the dividends, in 20 years you would be a millionaire.
I trust Buffet a bit more. Same for real estate, it always goes up. Sure both industries take hits from time to time, but they always produce 95% of the time.
Anyone can be a millionaire, but it’s not overnight.
Anyone can be a millionaire provided they are willing to completely immerse themselves into the world of finance and investing as Buffett did. I’m a bit dubious though if many NFL players like Cameron Smith would do that.
“Same for real estate, it always goes up.”
That is patently not true, arty! Please do a web search or two on “real estate booms and busts” or “biggest real estate busts.”
“Anyone can be a millionaire, but it’s not overnight.”
Utter and complete BS.
One thing about land, the ain’t making any more of it!
Not necessarily true. Shallow waterways can and have been be filled in, artificial islands can be built (I believe there are examples in both the Persian Gulf and the South China Sea) and that’s not even getting into draining swamps and cutting down forests and jungles (which the maniacs – many of them cattlemen – are doing to the Amazon at a truly frightening pace).
Back to football . . . Plenty of places for politics this isn’t one of them
Well you got to do what most of us could only dream of congratulations may of not got everything done you wanted but life is more important good luck