Arizona Cardinals rookie cornerback Jace Whittaker makes about as little as you can make as an NFL player. He has been on the practice squad all season but has been elevated to the active roster to play in some games this season, appearing in four games this season.
While some players make millions of dollars, Whittaker is on pace to make a little more than $250,000. That didn’t stop him from doing some good in the community, Peter King wrote this week.
For Thanksgiving, he donated $2,500 to help feed 40 families in need from Gilliand Middle School in Tempe.
Other Cardinals players have done similar things, but Whittaker does not have a sure future in the NFL and makes only a fraction of what regular NFL players make.
“I don’t have a big contract,” Whittaker said Saturday. “But we are all God’s children. I understand the world today, with the pandemic and the employment situation, is in need. This is my first real job ever, and my family and I thought it would be a good thing to help people. My parents raised me to be kind to everyone. Football, thankfully, is helping me do something like this.”
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, he met with the kids he assisted virtually.
This really isn’t surprising, as this tends to be the norm with multiple Cardinals players every single year.
If you needed to be reminded, NFL players are, for the most part, good young men trying to do good things and make a career for themselves.
This is great work both by Whittaker and by the Cardinals.
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