Earlier this week, the football world found out how much rookie cornerback Sauce Gardner paid teammate D. Reed for the No. 1 jersey.
Gardner paid $50,000 to wear this number in his rookie season. This story sparked a number of others when one former All-Pro player revealed that he had paid five times more.
Gerald McCoy told the NFL’s Total Access team that he paid $250,000 for the number 93 jersey when he transferred from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the Carolina Panthers.
“Hey, listen, $50,000 is cute. It’s cute. But what does your legacy mean to you? didn’t cost me $50,000. It cost me $250,000.”
McCoy said his wife was the catalyst for him putting a quarter of a million dollars into the deal.
“Hey, listen, I wasn’t going to do this, but my wife said: “This is your legacy.”
As a result, McCoy played only one season for the Panthers, but left his legacy at number 93 intact.
