Buffalo Bills rookie wide receiver Keon Coleman recently signed a four-year, nearly $10 million contract, but he remains a smart buyer.
At an April press conference, the second-round pick revealed that he didn’t buy his coat at a designer store, but rather put it on sale at Macy’s. Coleman paid $79.89 for his yellow Guess puffer coat, a purchase he said was “a nice little deal.”
She learned to save money from her mother, who taught her to buy her coats in the summer instead of in the colder seasons to get discounts, she said.
“I shop like my mom, I buy my coats in the summer,” Coleman said during the press conference. “You have to buy a season or two ahead, just in case.”
The clip of the press conference made waves online, and when Nike found out, the sports brand sent Coleman a box full of coats to prepare him for the New York winters, Sports Illustrated reported.
The yellow version of the Guess coat is not available on Macy’s website at the time of publication, but Coleman’s influence is still there. “I bought this jacket for my son thanks to Keon Coleman,” he reads in a review from May.
Coleman isn’t the only professional athlete finding ways to save, despite earning millions. Here are three more athletes with frugal habits.
Coleman isn’t the only athlete who values affordable clothing. New Orleans Pelicans forward Herbert Jones prefers to wear free team gear rather than spend money on his own wardrobe.
Jones, who will earn close to $13 million in the upcoming NBA season, according to Spotrac data, told Andscape in 2022 that he would rather focus on his future than how he looks in the present.
“I think long-term for my kids. If I have to wear Pelicans gear… for the rest of my career, then my kids or my kids’ kids can go to school for free just based on what I made.” in the NBA, so I’m fine, I’m fine,” the then-24-year-old told Andscape.
In 2023, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy revealed that he drives a Toyota Sequoia and lives with a roommate. Purdy, who made nearly $900,000 last year, told KeynoteUSA’s “TODAY” show that he prefers a simple lifestyle and shares rent with an offensive lineman on the team.
While Purdy wouldn’t say when he bought the SUV, whether it was new or used or what year the Sequoia is, the vehicle isn’t cheap. Prices for 2024 Sequoias range from just over $61,000 to more than $78,000. Still, it’s not an expensive sports car.
The idea of a professional soccer player sharing rent may make sense when you consider the cost of living in cities like San Francisco, which was the third most expensive urban area in the United States in 2023, according to data from the Council on Community Affairs and Economical. Research cost of living index. San Francisco has the fourth highest cost of living in 2024 so far.
New York Yankees player Gerrit Cole told NJ.com in 2021 that he still drives the truck he’s had since high school.
Cole, whose nine-year contract is worth $324 million, said he prefers to drive his 2006 Toyota Tacoma whenever he’s in Los Angeles, mainly because it still runs. The truck also has a nostalgia factor, as it reminds him of “all the youth baseball stuff” he traveled to in high school, Cole told NJ.com.
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