The age of the list’s oldest athlete, Phil Mickelson, who by the time Erling Haaland was born, in 2000, had been a pro golfer for eight years. Sixteen members of the list are under 30, although just five are 25 or younger. The age of the list’s youngest athlete, Manchester City forward Erling Haaland. Other sports-including cricket, hockey and Nascar-do not have an athlete represented. Football (ten athletes), soccer (six), boxing (two), Formula 1 auto racing (two), tennis (two) and baseball (one) round out the list. The big gainer is golf, which places 12 athletes on this year’s list, up from three a year ago, thanks to the big upfront guarantees dished out by the Saudi-backed LIV Golf. The NBA leads the way with 15 athletes, although that number is down from 18 in 2022. The number of sports represented on the list. THE WORLD'S 50 HIGHEST-PAID ATHLETES BY SPORT But with his $60 million signing bonus coming off the books for 2023, his on-field earnings dropped to $27.5 million over the last 12 months, keeping him out of the top 50. 13 in 2022 with a total of $72.3 million-$69.8 million on the field and $2.5 million off the field. For instance, Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford was No. The list always has a healthy amount of turnover, in large part because NFL contracts generally pay out a big slice of their value upfront in the form of signing bonuses. There are also six others (Dustin Johnson, Max Scherzer, Anthony Joshua, Derek Carr, Aaron Donald and Jordan Spieth) who missed out in 2022 but had appeared in previous rankings. That includes 11 true newcomers: Cameron Smith, Brooks Koepka, Kyler Murray, Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm, Patrick Reed, Erling Haaland, Orlando Brown Jr., Luka Doncic, Scottie Scheffler and Sergio García. The number of athletes in this year’s top 50 who did not appear in last year’s. It also roughly doubles the $22.7 million cutoff from 2014. That’s an all-time high, demolishing 2022’s threshold of $37.6 million. The cutoff to rank among the top 50, set by the recently retired Tom Brady.
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