Yahoo Lifestyle Peyton Manning's Net Worth in 2024 and How Much He Made as a Star Quarterback
Peyton Manning's net worth makes him rich by anyone’s standard, but especially in the world of American football. He won the Super Bowl two times, quarterbacked successfully for two NFL franchises and went on to earn big in “retirement” as a sportscaster and producer.
Interestingly, he’s also enough of a bonafide country music fan to earn himself a spot as co-host of the 2024 CMA Awards alongside Luke Bryan and Lainey Wilson.
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Here’s a look at what Manning has raked in at every big step in his career, plus his total net worth today.
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How did Peyton Manning get his start?
Peyton Manning comes from a football family. More specifically, a quarterback family. His father, Archie Manning, was an NFL quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, Houston Oilers and Minnesota Vikings. Although he’s not considered as successful as his sons, he played for 13 seasons and was selected for two Pro Bowls.
Both Peyton and his younger brother, Eli, were immersed in football from young ages, and both went on to play quarterback in the NFL and win Super Bowls. Peyton always played at a high level, winning a national Player of the Year award in his senior year of high school. He attended the University of Tennessee, played four years there, and came out as Tennessee’s career passing leader. As the No.1 pick, he went to the Indianapolis Colts in the 1998 NFL Draft.
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Though his rookie year wasn’t the most successful, by his second season the Colts won their division and by his third season he was throwing for over 4,000 yards. He continued to break passer records, won league MVP in 2003 and 2004 and won his first Super Bowl at the end of the 2006 season. His leadership on the field was unparalleled and, some say, forever altered how the position of quarterback is played.
Of course, that’s nowhere near the end of his playing career. After an injury setback, he signed on with the Denver Broncos in 2012 and won his second Super Bowl—Super Bowl 50—in 2016. He announced his retirement shortly thereafter.
“Peyton changed how a quarterback was playing everywhere in football. Because he controlled everything at the line of scrimmage,” said Bill Polian, former Colts general manager, as reported by ESPN. “And so, nowadays in high school you see kids doing that, everywhere in college they're doing it. It's being done to great effect in the NFL. And that's his legacy, the fact that he was able to control the game by a pre-snap look, play selection, post-snap execution all by himself with just game-plan help from the coaches—it was a giant step forward for the position.”
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What is Peyton Manning’s net worth?
Peyton Manning has an estimated net worth of $250 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Much of that comes from multimillion-dollar NFL contracts, multimillion-dollar endorsement deals and a substantial post-retirement salary as a Monday Night Football analyst.
Manning also moonlights as a professor at the University of Tennessee and owns the production company that makes Manningcast (the Monday Night Football show he does with his brother Eli). At one point, he owned more than 30 Papa John’s Pizza locations, too.
How much did Peyton Manning make as a rookie?
As a rookie quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts, Manning already commanded an impressive salary (for the time). The reason it was impressive? Rookies are unproven talent—no matter how well they did in college, there’s no telling if it will translate to the NFL. As such, their salaries are usually nothing to write home about.
But No. 1 picks tend to cut better deals than those who get drafted later, and this was especially true in Manning’s case. Plus, it probably helped he had a family legacy of quarterback greatness. In 1998, he signed a six-year contract worth $46.3 million. This included an $11.6 million signing bonus (which is received just for signing but can be paid over the length of the contract).
Overall, the deal worked out to an average annual salary of $7.7 million, meaning Manning made just shy of $8 million his rookie year.
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How much did Peyton Manning make with the Indianapolis Colts?
Here’s a timeline of Manning’s contracts with the Indianapolis Colts:
1998-2003: Manning’s first contract with the Colts stretched six years and was worth $46.3 million.
2004-2010: He signed a seven-year contract extension worth a whopping $98 million, $34.5 million of which was just the signing bonus.
2011-2015: He signed a final, five-year contract extension with the Colts worth $90 million. This included a $20 million signing bonus and average salary of $18 million.
Since the Colts dropped Manning in 2012—after he’d struggled with a neck injury, and also to avoid paying him a $28 million bonus—they didn’t pay out the full $90 million from the last contract. But he would go on to score an even bigger contract with the Denver Broncos.
How much did Peyton Manning make with the Denver Broncos?
In 2012, Manning signed what could have been the last NFL contract of his career. He agreed to a five-year deal worth $96 million to play for the Denver Broncos.
The deal guaranteed $18 million at signing and $58 million overall, meaning he was entitled to at least $58 million as long as he completed the contract. It included an average annual salary of $19.2 million.
However, in 2015, Manning decided to restructure this contract to free up more cap space for the team so they could afford to spend in other areas. He signed a two-year deal worth $34 million, which lowered his yearly pay to $17 million.
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How much does Peyton Manning make for Manningcast?
It’s not public news what Peyton Manning makes from “Manningcast,” his Monday Night Football show with Eli. But in April 2024 his production company, Omaha Productions, inked a nine-year deal with ESPN.
The deal means Omaha Productions will be making programming for ESPN into 2034, including Manningcast (a.k.a. Monday Night Football With Peyton and Eli) and other projects, such as Peyton’s Places and Eli’s Places.
How much does Peyton Manning make for his Nationwide commercials?
Manning’s partnership with insurer Nationwide began in 2014, when he was still in the NFL. In the decade since, he’s been featured in over a dozen commercials for the brand.
While it’s not known exactly how much he makes for his Nationwide commercials, his Forbes page says he earned $15 million from endorsements in 2016.
How much does Peyton Manning make from endorsements?
Manning’s yearly earnings from endorsement deals totaled $15 million in 2016, according to Forbes. The publication reported that he made $400 million total, including NFL pay and endorsements, over the course of his football career.
Some of his well-known endorsement deals, apart from Nationwide, have included:
Buick
DIRECTV
Fanatics
Gatorade
Nike
Papa John’s
