Vince Young is a former NFL quarterback who has a net worth of $400 thousand.
Young played for the Tennessee Titans from 2006 to 2010 and the Philadelphia Eagles in 2011, and he played for the Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns, and Green Bay Packers during the offseason from 2012 to 2014.
His first major payday came in 2006 when the Tennessee Titans ponied up $2.6 million for the season.
At the peak of his career during the 2007-2008 season, Vince earned an annual salary of $13.1 million.
He won numerous awards, was a two time Pro-Bowl selection, and was named both the NFL Rookie of the Year and the AP NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2006.
During his football career, he earned around $30 million in endorsement deals from companies such as Reebok, Madden NFL, and Campbell’s Soup.
In 2012, it was revealed that Young had blown through the majority of his football fortune and was nearly flat broke.
In January 2014, he filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing assets of $500,000 to $1 million and liabilities ranging $1 million to $10 million. After announcing his retirement from the NFL in June 2014, Vince worked in the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement at the University of Texas.
In 2021, the school hired him as a special assistant in the athletic department. Young has been inducted into the Texas Sport Hall of Fame (2017), Rose Bowl Hall of Fame (2018), and College Football Hall of Fame (2019), and Vince and his mother established the charitable organization the Vincent Young Foundation, which is dedicated to “improving the quality of life of underprivileged children with a special focus on promoting academic and athletic excellence.”
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