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I don't think that's true. He played offensive line which isn't a high profile position and he wasn't a star. I think he's much more famous due to the Math/NFL combo than he would be in either alone.

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Starting offensive linemen are among the highest paid players in the NFL and have the longest careers on average, some spanning more than 15 years.

Dallas is paying its O-Line $41,174,860 this year, $4,574,984 per player on average (including all 9 starters and backups), which is 22.25% of the salary cap.

NFL Offensive Line Spending by Team https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/positional/offensive-line/

And the Giants just made Nate Solder the highest-paid offensive lineman in NFL, "a contract worth $62 million — an average of $15.5 million per year — with a $34.9 million guaranteed."

https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/patriots/2018/03/14/nate-...

I was strictly talking about fame.

The cited article above notes he earned $1.8m over three years: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/27/nfl-player-who-retired-to-pu...

Minimum annual salary in the NFL is $480,000.

Average tenure in the NFL is something like 3 years. Not saying that 1.5mm minimum isn't a lot, of course.

For many, if not most, of the players it must be one year and out ...

(Simple case: ten guys, two hang out ten years, the other eight share ten years of NFL ...)

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