XFL Isn't Paying What They Said They Would & Players Are Starting To Quit

So the NFL’s league minimum salary is $495,000. The average XFL paycheck is, well, not that. Per ProFootballTalk.com...

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XFL players will make an average salary of $55,000 a year, the upstart league wrote in a memo distributed to player agents.

The memo states that players who are drafted and retained by XFL teams will become full-time employees as of December 4, 2019, and if they remain on a roster they will remain employed through May 31, 2020. Between the base salary, a bonus for being active on game days and a bonus for being on the winning team, the average player will make $55,000 a year.

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Players like former AAF standout Corey Vereen are informing the league this week that they're dropping out after getting drafted because they're disappointed in the base salary, claiming that the salaries presented to agents last week were nowhere close to what they were told they were going to be at the XFL combine earlier this year...

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Yup, sounds like a Vince McMahon move.

(brobible)