Bobby McCray Net Worth 2026: The $2M-$10M NFL Fortune

Bobby McCray‘s net worth is estimated at $2 million to $10 million as of November 2026. The former NFL defensive end collected roughly $11.5 million in salary and bonuses across seven seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars, New Orleans Saints and Philadelphia Eagles, signed a five-year, $20 million Saints contract in 2008 that he never got to finish, won a Super Bowl ring with New Orleans, and now — according to court filings from August 2026 — draws about $17,123 a month from NFL disability and annuity payments while his divorce from reality television personality Khadijah Haqq moves through a Los Angeles court.

Early Life and Background

Bobby L. McCray Jr. was born on August 8, 1981, in Miami, Florida. He grew up in South Florida and attended Homestead Senior High School in Homestead, Florida, where he played for the Homestead Broncos. The size that later defined his NFL career was already obvious in high school: McCray stood 6 feet 6 inches tall, a frame built for the defensive line, and college recruiters noticed.

One small wrinkle in the record is worth flagging because it shows how carefully the numbers in this article were checked. Most sources, including Wikipedia, give McCray’s birth date as August 8, 1981. Pro-Football-Reference, normally the most reliable stat source in football, lists November 1, 1981 instead. We went with August 8, the date carried by Wikipedia, his college bio and the bulk of the reporting, and we note the disagreement rather than hiding it.

Miami in the early 1980s was producing NFL talent at a remarkable rate, and Homestead High sat in the middle of that pipeline. McCray’s path from a South Florida high school field to the NFL followed the classic route for a player of his size: dominate locally, earn a scholarship to a major program, and let the draft sort out the rest. Nothing in his early life suggested a future in the celebrity pages. That came later, through marriage to a woman who grew up inside the Kardashian orbit.

What set McCray apart early was not hype but measurables. At 6 feet 6 inches and around 260 pounds, he had the length defensive line coaches prize for batting down passes and the mass to hold the edge against the run. The question through his teens was whether the production would match the frame. By his senior year at Homestead, it had — enough for the University of Florida to offer him an athletic scholarship.

Education

McCray accepted an athletic scholarship to the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he played for the Florida Gators from 2000 to 2003 under head coaches Steve Spurrier and Ron Zook. The coaching change midway through his college career matters to his story: Spurrier recruited him, Zook coached him through his final two seasons, and McCray produced under both.

He was redshirted as a true freshman in 1999, a standard move for a young lineman who needed a year in a college weight room. He then played in three games in 2000 as the Gators won the SEC championship, the first big team honour of his career. Over four seasons he appeared in 36 games with 15 starts, recording 107 tackles, 14.5 sacks, 20.5 tackles for loss, 31 quarterback pressures, two passes defensed, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery, according to the Florida Gators’ own roster bio.

His best college seasons came in 2002 and 2003, when he earned second-team All-SEC honours in both years. The 2002 season also took him to the Orange Bowl, the kind of stage game that puts a defensive end on NFL scouts’ clipboards. Thirteen of his 15 college starts came in those final two seasons, which is the pattern of a player who developed late — a useful piece of context for a draft story that ended in the seventh round rather than the first.

McCray left Florida without a degree in the headlines — no reporting ties a specific degree to his name — but with something more valuable for his bank account: four years of SEC tape, an All-SEC line on his resume, and a body that measured 6 feet 6 inches and 255 pounds at draft time, per his Relative Athletic Score profile. The 2004 NFL Draft would test how much all of that was worth.

Career Journey

The Jacksonville Jaguars selected McCray in the seventh round of the 2004 NFL Draft, 249th overall. Pick 249 is the far end of the draft, where contracts are small, guarantees are thinner, and most players are fighting for a roster spot rather than a starting job. McCray beat those odds from day one.

As a rookie in 2004 he played in all 16 regular-season games, made seven starts, and recorded 25 tackles and 3.5 sacks. For a seventh-round pick, playing every game as a rookie is a statement. He stayed in Jacksonville for four seasons, from 2004 to 2007, appearing in 61 regular-season games and recording 94 tackles, 22 sacks and seven forced fumbles. At the time he left, those 22 sacks tied him for seventh in Jaguars franchise history, alongside defensive tackle Marcus Stroud — a detail the Saints noted when they signed him.

His peak season in Jacksonville came in 2006, when he posted a career-high 10 sacks. That single season did more for his earning power than the previous two combined. In the NFL, pass rushers get paid, and a 10-sack season from a 25-year-old defensive end is the kind of line that turns a player from a roster piece into a free-agent target.

Jacksonville let him reach free agency after the 2007 season rather than extending him, and New Orleans moved fast. On March 2, 2008, McCray signed a five-year, $20 million contract with the Saints, including $5 million in guaranteed money. It was the biggest contract of his life by a wide margin — and, as the next section shows, also the deal that taught the hardest lesson about the gap between a contract’s headline value and the money a player actually collects.

With the Saints, McCray played 16 games with eight starts in 2008 and recorded six sacks. In 2009 he played 16 more games as a reserve, but he started all three of the Saints’ postseason games on the run to Super Bowl XLIV. The Saints released him on June 21, 2010 — days before the team would have owed him a $1.25 million roster bonus and a $2 million base salary. New Orleans re-signed him to a one-year contract on July 22, 2010, then waived him on September 3, 2010. The Philadelphia Eagles signed him on December 30, 2010, for the final weeks of the season, and his NFL career ended there.

Seven seasons, three teams, 94 regular-season games, 37 starts, 134 tackles, 29.5 sacks, eight forced fumbles and one fumble recovery. For a 249th overall pick, that is a career that beat the draft slot by a distance. The money story, though, is more complicated than the stat line.

Rise to Fame

McCray’s rise happened in two stages, years apart. The first was football. The 10-sack season in 2006 made him a name among Jaguars fans and a free-agent prize in 2008. The Super Bowl run with the Saints in the 2009 season made him a champion: New Orleans beat the Indianapolis Colts 31–17 in Super Bowl XLIV on February 7, 2010, in Miami, and McCray had started every playoff game on the way there. A Super Bowl ring is the one asset from an NFL career that never depreciates, and for a role player like McCray, it is the line that leads every biography written about him since.

The second stage was celebrity, and it arrived through his personal life rather than his play. McCray married Khadijah Haqq in July 2010. Haqq is the longtime best friend of Khloé Kardashian and, with her twin sister Malika Haqq, a fixture of the Kardashian television world. Their wedding party included Khloé Kardashian. From that point on, McCray’s name travelled in celebrity coverage as much as in sports coverage — a crossover that explains why a retired defensive end with 29.5 career sacks still generates net-worth searches in 2026.

That crossover sharpened in August 2023, when Haqq announced the couple’s separation after 13 years of marriage and 16 years together. McCray filed for divorce in August 2024. Then, in August 2026, Haqq’s filing for child and spousal support — with its unusually detailed account of McCray’s NFL income — put his finances back in the news and gave reporters the most concrete figures about his money ever made public. The divorce coverage is, ironically, the best-sourced reporting on McCray’s wealth that exists.

There is a third, quieter strand to his public profile: charity. McCray dedicated his 2008 season to After School All-Stars, a national organisation running after-school programmes, and pledged $1,000 to the charity for every sack he recorded. It was a small gesture in dollar terms — six sacks that season meant about $6,000 — but it is one of the few documented examples of McCray directing his football money anywhere other than his own household, and it is the kind of detail the quick net-worth roundups never mention.

Main Sources of Income

McCray’s money has always come from one place: football. Unlike the celebrity net-worth profiles where a star layers a clothing line on a music catalogue on a tequila brand, McCray’s income breaks down into a short list, and every item on it traces back to the NFL.

NFL salaries and bonuses (2004–2010). This is the foundation of everything else. Season-by-season figures compiled by Celebrity Net Worth put his career earnings at roughly $11.5 million in salary and bonuses, before taxes, agent fees and expenses. The 2008 season alone delivered about $5.7 million, thanks to the $5 million signing bonus inside his Saints deal, and 2009 added about $2.3 million. His four Jacksonville seasons produced roughly $2.7 million combined, and the brief Philadelphia stint about $0.6 million.

NFL disability and annuity payments (2011–present). This is the income stream that only became public in 2026, and it is now his steadiest money. According to the August 2026 court filing reported by PEOPLE and Us Weekly, McCray receives about $3,044 a month from one disability benefit, $11,250 a month in NFL disability income, and $2,829 a month from an NFL annuity. That is $17,123 a month, or more than $205,000 a year, before any other income. Baller Alert, citing TMZ‘s reporting on the same filing, put the total closer to $18,600 a month once Social Security benefits are included. The gap between the two totals is a reminder that these are one side’s allegations in a filing, not a court finding — but even the lower figure is a substantial post-career income.

Retirement accounts. The same filing listed an NFL 401(k) worth more than $765,000, plus separate NFL annuity accounts valued at more than $120,000 and $69,000. Those three accounts alone total more than $954,000 — the single most concrete asset figure ever published about McCray, and it comes from his estranged wife’s own filing, which had every reason to be thorough.

Reality television proximity. McCray himself never became a television personality, but his marriage placed him inside the Kardashian-adjacent world for over a decade, and Haqq’s filing noted income of her own from the Hulu reality series The Girls — $150,000 for a series filmed in April 2026, plus $25,000 from two Raising Cane’s appearances in 2025 and $7,500 from social media consulting. None of that is McCray’s income, and it would be wrong to count it as such. It matters only because it explains why the couple’s finances were litigated in public rather than settled quietly.

What he does not have. There is no public record of McCray owning a business, holding an endorsement portfolio, or earning meaningful money from media work after retirement. He did not become a television analyst, a coach, or a brand ambassador in any documented way. That absence is central to understanding his net worth: his wealth is a closed pool — money earned between 2004 and 2010, plus the retirement and disability benefits that pool now pays out — rather than a growing enterprise.

Salary and Earnings

The single most misunderstood number in McCray’s financial story is $20 million. That was the headline value of the five-year contract he signed with New Orleans on March 2, 2008. It was not money he collected. The Saints released him after two seasons of the deal, and the season-by-season cash tells a very different story.

Here is the year-by-year picture, as compiled by Celebrity Net Worth from contract reporting and confirmed in broad terms by other trackers:

The arithmetic of the Saints deal is the heart of the story. The contract was announced at $20 million over five years with $5 million guaranteed. McCray collected about $8 million of it across 2008 and 2009 — the signing bonus plus two seasons of salary — and then the Saints cut him in June 2010, just before a $1.25 million roster bonus and a $2 million base salary came due. Roughly $12 million of headline contract value simply vanished. That is not a scandal; it is how NFL contracts work. The headline number is a maximum, not a promise. But it is the reason any net-worth estimate that starts from “$20 million contract” and works down is wrong from the first step.

His Jacksonville years show the other end of the pay scale. As a seventh-round pick on a rookie deal, McCray earned modest money by NFL standards — about $2.7 million across four seasons, or roughly $675,000 a year. The 2006 season, his 10-sack year, was the lever that changed everything: it made him a starter, it made him a free agent worth bidding on, and it produced the Saints offer that multiplied his annual pay by roughly eight times in a single offseason.

Gross earnings are not take-home pay, and the gap matters here more than in most profiles. From that $11.5 million came federal and state taxes, agent fees (typically around 3 percent for NFL agents), union dues, and the cost of maintaining an NFL lifestyle for seven years. No public record itemises McCray’s spending, so any net-worth figure that simply subtracts a flat tax rate and calls the rest “wealth” is guessing. The honest range in this article exists precisely because the spending side is unknowable — and because the two most visible trackers landed in very different places.

What changed the picture in 2026 was the divorce filing. For the first time, the public record included McCray’s current monthly income in writing: $17,123 a month from disability and annuity payments, according to Haqq’s filing, or about $18,600 including Social Security, according to TMZ’s reporting carried by Baller Alert. That is $205,000 to $223,000 a year, every year, for a man who has not played a down since 2010. It is also the strongest evidence that the low end of the net-worth range understates his position: a guaranteed six-figure annual income stream, plus a 401(k) above $765,000, is not the profile of a man worth almost nothing. Equally, it is not evidence for $10 million. The range stands.

Businesses and Investments

There is no public record of Bobby McCray founding a company, buying into a franchise, or launching a product line. Search his name across business reporting and the results are football contracts and divorce filings, not startups. That silence is itself a finding: for most retired athletes of his generation, the absence of a visible business portfolio means the wealth story is about preservation, not growth.

What is documented is the retirement machinery the NFL provides. The 401(k) worth more than $765,000 and the two annuity accounts above $120,000 and $69,000, all disclosed in the August 2026 filing, are the closest thing McCray has to an investment portfolio on the public record. NFL players of his era benefited from the league’s 401(k) plan and the Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan, which pays annuities based on credited seasons. McCray’s seven credited seasons qualify him for those benefits, and the filing shows them paying out at a meaningful rate.

The disability payments are a separate and important piece. The $11,250 a month in NFL disability income alleged in the filing is the largest single line in his monthly income, larger than the annuity and the other disability benefit combined. NFL disability benefits exist for players whose football injuries limit their ability to work, and the amounts reflect the severity classification. McCray has never spoken publicly about the specific injuries behind the payments, and this article will not speculate about his medical history. The payments themselves are documented in the filing, and that is where the reporting stops.

Property is the other gap in the record. No public reporting ties McCray to a named house purchase, a real estate portfolio, or a property sale. Haqq’s filing described the marital lifestyle as including a single-family residence, two cars, private school for the children, and at least one domestic or international vacation each year — but it did not name an address or a value. Without a deed or a listing, this article will not invent a property portfolio. Readers should treat any site that lists a McCray house price as guessing.

The honest summary is that McCray’s post-football finances look like a pension, not an empire. The NFL’s retirement system — 401(k), annuities, disability — is doing the work that a business would do for a more entrepreneurial ex-player. That system pays him more than $200,000 a year. It also caps his upside: the payments are fixed, they do not compound like a growing company, and they explain why his net worth has stayed roughly flat since retirement rather than climbing the way a star with endorsement income would.

Brand Deals and Sponsorships

McCray has no documented endorsement portfolio. No shoe deal, no beverage deal, no local car dealership campaign, no memorabilia line appears in any reporting about him. That is normal for his profile: endorsement money in the NFL flows to quarterbacks, to skill-position stars, and to a handful of defensive players with national name recognition. A rotational defensive end — even one with a Super Bowl ring — rarely sees a meaningful offer.

His one documented commercial-adjacent activity was charity, not commerce. In 2008 he dedicated his season to After School All-Stars and pledged $1,000 per sack to the organisation. With six sacks that year, the pledge came to about $6,000. It was a donation, not a deal, and it says more about his priorities that season than about his income.

The marriage to Khadijah Haqq did put McCray adjacent to brand-deal culture — Haqq’s filing lists $25,000 from two Raising Cane’s appearances in 2025 and $7,500 from social media consulting for Below Deck — but those were her deals, reported as her income, and they do not belong in his column. Conflating a spouse’s brand income with a player’s net worth is a common error in celebrity finance coverage, and this article avoids it.

One thing worth stating plainly: the absence of endorsement income is not a knock on McCray’s career. It is the standard economics of his position. Defensive ends who are not household names earn their money from their contracts and their pensions. McCray earned his the same way, and the $11.5 million career total is the proof that the model worked for him while he played.

Houses, Cars and Other Assets

The public record on McCray’s assets is thin, and this section says so rather than filling the gap with invention. Here is what is actually documented.

Retirement accounts: an NFL 401(k) worth more than $765,000, plus annuity accounts valued at more than $120,000 and $69,000, all disclosed in Haqq’s August 2026 filing. Combined, those three accounts exceed $954,000. They are the most solid asset figure in the public record, and they sit at the centre of the $2 million end of the net-worth range: add a modest property and a car or two to a million dollars in retirement accounts, and $2 million is a defensible total.

Monthly income stream: about $17,123 a month from disability and annuity payments, or about $18,600 including Social Security, depending on which account of the filing you follow. Capitalised, an income stream of $205,000 a year is worth several million dollars in present-value terms — which is the strongest argument for the higher end of the range. An income stream is not the same as a bank balance, and this article does not count it as one, but a buyer of an annuity paying $205,000 a year would charge millions for it. That is why the range is wide.

Home and cars: Haqq’s filing described the marital lifestyle as a single-family residence, two cars, private school and annual vacations. No address, purchase price, or vehicle model is named in the reporting we reviewed, and no property record surfaced in our research. Any article that prices McCray’s house is working from assumption, not evidence.

Super Bowl ring: McCray earned a Super Bowl XLIV championship ring with the Saints. A ring’s sentimental value is incalculable and its resale value — for a non-star player’s ring — is modest compared with the figures in this article. It is listed here because it is the one physical asset from his career that is certain to exist, not because it moves the estimate.

What is not documented: no second home, no car collection, no jewellery or watch collection, no art, no business equity. If McCray holds any of those, he has kept them out of the public record entirely. The net-worth range in this article is built only on what can be shown: career earnings, retirement accounts, and the monthly benefit stream.

Awards and Achievements

McCray’s trophy case is short but it contains the one item every NFL player wants. The list below sticks to honours documented in his college bio, his NFL record, and the Saints’ own announcements.

• Super Bowl champion (XLIV): with the New Orleans Saints, February 7, 2010 — a 31–17 win over the Indianapolis Colts in Miami. McCray started all three postseason games on the run to the title.
• SEC champion (2000): with the Florida Gators in his first season on the field.
• Second-team All-SEC (2002 and 2003): back-to-back conference honours in his final two college seasons.
• Orange Bowl appearance (2002): with Florida, the biggest stage game of his college career.
• Career-high 10 sacks (2006): with Jacksonville, the season that made his free-agent market.
• Tied seventh in Jaguars franchise history (22 sacks): at the time he left Jacksonville in 2008, tied with Marcus Stroud.
• Seventh-round pick who played seven seasons: drafted 249th overall in 2004, McCray played 94 regular-season games — a career length most late-round picks never reach.

He was never selected for a Pro Bowl and never named an All-Pro, and this article will not dress that up. McCray was a solid starter and a valuable rotational pass rusher, not a star. His honours reflect that honestly: a conference title and All-SEC recognition in college, a Super Bowl ring as a professional, and a 10-sack season as his individual peak. For a 249th overall pick, that is a career to be proud of — and it is the career the money in this article was built on.

Net Worth Growth Over the Years

No audited balance sheet exists for any year of McCray’s life, so the table below is an estimate built from the documented events in each period — contracts signed, money collected, retirement, and the 2026 filings. It is labelled as an estimate throughout, and the ranges widen where the evidence thins.

Two things stand out in that table. First, the peak almost certainly came in 2008–2010, when the Saints money landed. Second, the $10 million figure that still circulates dates to a period when trackers were, in effect, repeating each other rather than re-checking the record. Celebrity Net Worth’s own revision — from $10 million in 2023 to $2 million in August 2026 — is the most important single fact in this article, because it is the one tracker with a season-by-season earnings breakdown admitting that the old number no longer fits the evidence. The 2026 court filings support the revision’s direction: $954,000-plus in retirement accounts and $205,000 a year in benefits is a comfortable position, but it is not a $10 million balance sheet unless there are large assets the filings never mentioned.

Readers should also note what the growth table cannot show: spending. A player who earned $11.5 million gross over seven years, paid taxes and agent fees, supported a family, and then lived for 16 years without a playing salary will have drawn the pool down substantially. That is the normal shape of a retired athlete’s finances, and it is why the low end of the range deserves as much respect as the high end.

Social Media Presence

McCray keeps a low public profile online, and there is no verified, widely followed social media account that can be confidently attributed to him as a source of income or influence. He is not a content creator, he does not run a public brand account, and no reporting ties him to a monetised channel. That is consistent with everything else in this profile: his public presence comes from his football career and his marriage, not from an online audience he built himself.

His wife’s side of the story is different. Khadijah Haqq is a reality television personality with a real social media footprint, and her filing listed $7,500 from social media consulting for Below Deck in 2025. But that income is hers, and this section will not blur the line between the two of them. McCray’s name appears on social media mostly in other people’s posts — Saints throwback content, divorce coverage, and Kardashian-adjacent gossip — rather than in anything he publishes.

For readers searching for McCray online, the practical advice is simple: be wary of accounts using his name and photo. Retired athletes with divorce headlines attract impersonator accounts, and none of the accounts we reviewed during research carried the verification or the posting history that would let us recommend one as his. The reliable sources for his story remain the court filings, the contract reporting, and the stat record — not a social feed.

Personal Life

McCray met Khadijah Haqq at a club in 2007, and the two married in July 2010 in Los Angeles. The wedding party included Khloé Kardashian, Haqq’s best friend, and Haqq’s twin sister Malika. Over the course of the marriage they welcomed three children: Christian Louis, now 15; Celine Amelia, now 12; and Kapri Naomi, now 5, born in January 2021. McCray also has an older son, Bobby McCray III, from a previous relationship, whom Haqq helped raise.

For most of the marriage, Haqq was a full-time stay-at-home mother. Her August 2026 filing states that she stopped regular work before the birth of their eldest child and dedicated nearly the entire marriage to raising the children, only recently securing steadier work — including $150,000 from the Hulu reality series The Girls, filmed in April 2026. That detail matters to the money story: for more than a decade, the household ran substantially on McCray’s NFL payments, first his salary and then his benefits. Haqq’s filing put it directly, saying the majority of their community income came from Bobby’s NFL payments.

The split became public on August 18, 2023, when Haqq announced that she and McCray were ending their marriage after 13 years together and 16 years as a couple. The filings give slightly different separation dates — Haqq’s filing says July 17, 2023, while McCray’s filing listed July 7, 2023 — but both agree the marriage ended in July 2023. McCray filed for divorce on August 16, 2024, citing irreconcilable differences and requesting joint legal and physical custody of the three children. In a twist that surprises many readers, his filing also sought spousal support from Haqq and asked the court to terminate its ability to award spousal support to her.

The case stayed unresolved for two years, then sharpened in 2026. On August 24, 2026, Haqq filed for child support, $2,033 a month in spousal support, and $100,000 toward her legal fees, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE and Us Weekly. She said she had borrowed money from family to cover living costs, that her monthly expenses were about $13,892.29 including $4,512 in rent, and that McCray had contributed less than $3,000 toward expenses since the separation. She also alleged that McCray had blocked her number, leaving her without a reliable way to reach him about the children — a claim reported by TMZ and carried by The Cheat Sheet and Wealth of Geeks. Every one of those points is an allegation in a filing, not a court finding, and the support amount had not been decided at the time of writing.

In October 2026, the case moved forward in a practical way: McCray agreed to sign a release giving Haqq access to his NFL income, retirement and pension records, according to court documents obtained by TMZ and reported by Baller Alert on October 20, 2026. Both sides also agreed to produce records of their personal accounts and digital wallets, Cash App included. The divorce had still not been finalised as of October 2026. Whatever the court eventually orders, the filings have already done something unusual for a celebrity net-worth story: they replaced guesswork with documents.

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