Alright, so the other day I got curious about Isiah Pacheco, you know, the running back for the Chiefs. He runs like he’s angry at the ground, and after seeing him play, especially in the big games, I started wondering what his contract situation looked like. You see these star players getting massive deals, but Pacheco was a later draft pick, right? So, I figured I’d do a little digging myself.
I sat down and decided to look into it. It wasn’t like some big official investigation, just me poking around online trying to piece together the info. First thing I did was confirm where he was drafted. Found that pretty quick – yeah, he was a seventh-round pick back in 2022. That right there told me a lot, ’cause rookie contracts are kinda slotted based on draft position.
So, knowing he was picked late, I started searching specifically for his rookie contract details. Took a bit of sifting through different sports sites and player info pages, but I eventually got the main numbers.
- It’s a 4-year deal, which is standard for draft picks.
- The total value is somewhere around $3.7 million over those four years.
- His signing bonus was pretty small, less than $100,000, I think around $79k or so.
Honestly, it’s pretty much the standard deal for someone drafted where he was. Not a lot of guaranteed money beyond that initial small signing bonus. His base salary starts low and goes up a tiny bit each year.
Finding this out really put his performance into perspective for me. Here’s a guy playing a key role on a championship team, making huge plays, and he’s doing it on a contract that’s tiny compared to the big stars. He’s massively outperforming that draft slot and the contract that came with it.
It just shows you, sometimes it’s not about the initial paycheck, but the drive and making the most of the opportunity. He’s definitely setting himself up for a much bigger payday down the line if he keeps this up. Anyway, that was my little dive into Pacheco’s contract situation. Just wanted to share what I found while I was looking into it.
