Joe Flacco is a quarterback who has won a Super Bowl, has a net worth of $85 million, and earns $20 million per year. Throughout his NFL career, Flacco has suited up for the Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Ravens, Denver Broncos, and New York Jets.
Joe Flacco Contracts and Earnings
The Super Bowl XLVII champion Baltimore Ravens, led by quarterback Joe Flacco, defeated the San Francisco 49ers on February 3, 2013. After winning the Super Bowl, Flacco became a free agent and could sign a lucrative new contract.
Joe Flacco signed a new contract with the Ravens on March 1, 2013, for a total of $120.6 million spread out over six years. Joe Flacco became the highest-paid player in the NFL with that sum. With this deal, Flacco was guaranteed a base salary of about $20 million spread out over six years.
That equated to $170,000 for each day of peak season. Since his time in the NFL, Joe Flacco has raked in almost $165 million. That puts him in elite company among NFL players in terms of salary.
Joe Flacco Early Life and Career Beginnings:
Joe Flacco’s birth in Audubon, New Jersey in 1985 made him the eldest of five siblings: brothers Mike, John, Brian, and Tom, and sister Stephanie. Flacco played football, baseball, and basketball while at Audubon High School.
After high school, he enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh, where he eventually settled into the role of backup quarterback to Tyler Palko. In 2004, he played in three games and attempted four passes. Flacco attended the University of Maryland until 2005,
when he transferred to Delaware. The following season, in his first significant role, he passed for 2,783 yards and 18 touchdowns. He threw for 4,263 yards and 23 touchdowns in 2007 as Delaware finished the regular season with an 8-3 record.
When against the Navy, he had his greatest game of the season, throwing for 434 yards and four touchdowns. After beating the Northern Iowa Panthers in the FCS quarterfinals, Flacco and company extended their playoff journey by beating the Southern Illinois Salukis in the semifinals.
He beat the Panthers and the Salukis with two touchdown passes, but the Appalachian State Mountaineers beat his team in the FCS National Championship Game. Twenty of Flacco’s records at Delaware were previously unbroken.
Joe Flacco Professional Career with the Baltimore Ravens
Flacco was the highest-drafted player in University of Delaware history when he was selected 18th overall by the Baltimore Ravens in the 2008 NFL Draft. He got a 5-year, $8.75M guaranteed contract later that year. Flacco started the opening game of the season as the Ravens’ quarterback, a loss to the Bengals.
It was the longest rushing score by a quarterback in Ravens’ history, covering 38 yards. The Ravens went on to win the game 17-10. Flacco was the NFL Rookie of the Month for November and the AFC Offensive Player of the Week in Week 9.
Flacco’s final stats for his debut year were 2,971 yards passing, 16 touchdowns, and 14 interceptions. From 2008 until about halfway through the 2018 season, Flacco was a member of the Ravens and was instrumental in the team’s six trips to the postseason.
He was instrumental in the Ravens’ two AFC North titles and three trips to the conference title game. To many, Super Bowl XLVII, in which the Ravens defeated the 49ers, was the pinnacle of Flacco’s career. The 49ers came into the game as heavy favourites,
but the Ravens came back and won 34-31 thanks to Flacco’s 22-of-33 passing and three touchdowns. The Super Bowl XLVII Most Valuable Player award capped off a postseason run in which he tied the single postseason record for touchdown passes without an interception.
Flacco got a six-year, $120.6 million contract that offseason, making him the highest-paid quarterback in NFL history.
Joe Flacco Denver Broncos:
With his performance having steadily declined over the course of several seasons and a hip injury having caused him to lose his starting job with the Ravens, quarterback Joe Flacco was moved to the Denver Broncos in February of 2019.
He struggled in his first start, a loss to the Oakland Raiders despite a passing yardage total of 268. After that, Flacco’s team lost several more games, and he was sacked a record nine times in one game. Flacco’s 2019 season was cut short when, eight games in, he suffered a neck injury. After the season, the Broncos decided to start Drew Lock and dismissed him.
Joe Flacco New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles:
Afterward, in May of 2020, Flacco signed a one-year, $1.5 million agreement with the New York Jets as the team’s backup quarterback, behind starter Sam Darnold. Due to Darnold’s shoulder injury, Flacco started against the Arizona Cardinals in October.
Despite accumulating 195 passing yards and a touchdown, the team lost the game by a score of 10-30. This was the first time in Flacco’s NFL career that his team was shut out, which happened in the next game when the Jets fell 0-24 to the Miami Dolphins.
After Darnold re-injured his shoulder in Week 9, Flacco took over as the starting quarterback and had his best game of the season, going 18 for 25 for 262 yards and three touchdowns. On the all-time passing yards list, Flacco is now in 20th place, having surpassed Joe Montana. With the Philadelphia Eagles, Flacco signed a one-year contract worth $3.5 million in March of 2021.
Joe Flacco Endorsements:
For the most of his career, Flacco has worked as a corporate endorser. Back in 2008, as a first-year player, he inked a three-year deal with Reebok. He was a Pizza Hut spokesperson for two years, from 2009 to 2010. In addition to Nike and Zynga, he has endorsed products from Haribo, 1st Mariner Bank, McDonald’s, and Zynga’s “NFL Showdown: Football Manager” mobile app.
Joe Flacco Personal Life:
Flacco wed his wife Dana in 2011. Stephen, Daniel, Francis, and Thomas are all boys, and Evelyn is the only girl in the family. Additionally, some of Flacco’s own siblings are active athletes as well. John played college football at Stanford, and Mike played in the Major Leagues for the Baltimore Orioles and the Boston Red Sox. Tom, his younger sibling, attended Western Michigan University, afterwards played for Rutgers and Towson, and was signed by the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League.
