Okay, so I got thinking about Chris Olave the other day. Watched some Saints highlights, and the guy’s pretty electric, right? Smooth routes. Anyway, the thought popped into my head, like it does sometimes – wonder what this dude’s actually worth? You know, the whole net worth thing.
So, I did what anyone does. Fired up my browser, typed in “chris olave net worth”. Simple enough. And boom, right away, you get a bunch of results. All these websites claiming to know exactly how much money he has.
But here’s the thing that always gets me. One site says one number, another site says something completely different. Sometimes millions apart! It’s like, who are these people? Where are they getting this information? Some random number generator? It feels pretty sketchy most of the time, if I’m being honest. You see these celebrity net worth sites all over, but I never really trust them.
I tried to dig a little bit, see if I could find something more concrete. Looked for details on his rookie contract with the Saints. Okay, that info is usually public. You can find the base salary, the signing bonus, that kind of stuff. That gives you a starting point, at least.
Figuring Out the Pieces
So, you piece together what you can find:
- Rookie Contract: That’s the main known thing. How much it was worth overall, the signing bonus part.
- Salary Payments: How much he actually pockets year to year from the team.
- Endorsements?: This is the big question mark. Does he have shoe deals? Local ads in New Orleans? National stuff? You might see him in a commercial, but knowing how much that specific deal is worth? Almost impossible for us regular folks.
You start adding these bits up, but the endorsement part is pure guesswork. And taxes take a huge bite, plus agent fees, living expenses… it’s not just the contract number equals net worth.
So, after poking around for a bit, reading some sports finance articles that also seemed to be guessing, I kinda just landed back where I started. You can get a ballpark figure based on his contract status as a relatively new player on his first deal, but a precise number? Forget about it.
My final take? It’s hard to say for sure. Anyone throwing out an exact number is probably just repeating what another unreliable site said. His worth is definitely going up, solid player on a rookie deal, but the specifics are locked down pretty tight. It was an interesting little search, though. Just reminded me again how much hot air is floating around online about celebrity money.
