Aaron Donald – $36M

Since Aaron Donald was encouraged by his father to focus on his fitness and health from a young age, he managed to make it to the football team of Penn Hills High School. It paved the way for multiple college scholarships, from which Donald chose the “University of Pittsburgh,” where he played college football and subsequently made it to the “NFL.”

As it appears, all of his father’s words of encouragement ad Donald’s hard work paid off as he made $36 million in the last year alone. He is currently halfway through his six-year contract with the “Los Angeles Rams.”