Shannon Sharpe, a former NFL player, is a famous American Football tight end player, whose net worth as of October 2020 is found to be 12 Million Dollars. An NFL player with Baltimore Ravens and Denver Broncos, Shannon was the first tight end player to reach 10,000 receiving yards. Shannon was born on June 26, 1968, in Chicago, Illinois. He has won several Super Bowls, and right now, you can see him TV commentaries related to football, giving various options about the football. 

Early life

Shannon’s younger brother Sterling Sharpe is an NFL player, and there started Shannon’s thirst for football. Due to his poor economy, he was not able to do graduation. He grew up in Glennville, Georgia. He used to play football and basketball in Savannah State. He has also competed in track and field. He has made a record break of 6.73 meters in Long Jump, 14.73 Meters in triple Jump, and 42.06 Meters in the discus throw. He was selected for Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference three times in the year 1987-1989. In the year 1987, he was a player of SAIC. Thus his career stared blooming when he was a teenager.

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Career

In the year 1989, he was selected as Kodak Division II All-America. He was the reason to make the Tiger’s football team establish best records: 7-3 in 1988 and 8-1 in 1989. Shannon’s football career started with Denver Broncos in the years 1990-1999 and 2002-2003, where he ah won Super Bowl XXXII and Super Bowl XXXIII. In the year 2002, he played two years of the game with Baltimore Ravens and had won Super Bowl XXXV.

Shannon got retired from his football playing in the year 2003. After retirement, Shannon became the commentator for The NFL Today on CBS Sports. In that program, he performed the commentaries along with James Brown, former NFL member, and Bill Cowher, the former Football coach. But very soon, he was relieved from the show as he had poor English pronunciation. On February 18, in the year 2014, he was relieved and replaced by Tony Gonzalez and Bart Scott.

In the year 2013, for the Magazine, FitnessRX for Men, Shannon became the writer and representative. He even appeared on the magazine cover in September 2013. Opening Drive Morningis the show conducted on Sirius NFL Radio, for which Shannon became was the host at present.

Achievements

• He has won Eight-Time Pro Bowl Selection
• He has also won Four-time All-pro Selection.
• He has played 204 football games
• He has got 815 receptions
• The total number of yards acquired by him is 10,060
• He has achieved 12.3 yards per reception

In the year 2011, Shannon was introducedtothe Pro Football Hall of Fame. After he retires from Football sports, you can see his videos on Football commentaries going viral on the Facebook page. He also acted in a TV series, American Dad, as The Scarlett getter, where his life is being portrayed. H has also appeared in the FS1’s sports debate show Skip and Shannon: Undisputed, which was launched in the year 2016, of September 6.

His net worth of 12 Million dollars was gained from Football leagues, commentaries, and his appearances on the TV shows.