Nick Foles Net Worth 2026: The $40M Super Bowl Fortune

Nick Foles‘s net worth is estimated at $40 million to $74 million as of November 2026. The most-cited figure is $40 million, published by Celebrity Net Worth, while Lines puts him at $74 million — a gap that says a lot about how net worth sites treat a quarterback who banked nearly $88 million in career salary and then walked away from the game at 35. Foles earned his money the old-fashioned way for an NFL player: one enormous contract, the four-year, $88 million deal he signed with Jacksonville in 2019, stacked on top of a decade of smaller deals, a Super Bowl MVP bonus season, and a book deal whose proceeds he gave away entirely.

How we estimated this: We started with the two contract databases that track every dollar actually paid — Spotrac, which lists his career earnings at $87.5 million, and Over The Cap, which records $83,755,520 in cash earnings — then checked those totals against the published net worth figures, which range from $40 million (Celebrity Net Worth, ComingSoon) to $74 million (Lines). The wide range exists because nobody outside Foles’s household knows his taxes, spending, or investments, so we publish the full range and anchor on the $40 million figure most outlets cite. Net worth figures for public personalities are estimates built from public reporting — not audited financial statements. Read our full methodology.

Nick Foles: Quick Facts

Estimated net worth$40 million (range: $40 million to $74 million)
ProfessionFormer NFL quarterback
NationalityAmerican
BornJanuary 20, 1989 (age 37)
Height6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m)
Primary income sourcesNFL contracts, Super Bowl bonuses, Lululemon endorsement, book royalties (donated)
Active years2012–2022 (NFL); retired August 2024
Last reviewedNovember 2026
Stylized illustrated portrait of Nick Foles in a Philadelphia Eagles uniform holding a football
Nick Foles, the Super Bowl LII MVP who turned a backup job into one of the most famous postseason runs in NFL history. (Illustration: NetWorthCraft)

Early Life and Background

Nicholas Edward Foles was born on January 20, 1989, in Austin, Texas, to Larry and Melissa Foles, and grew up in a household where sport was the family business in the broadest sense. His father ran restaurants in Austin, and the dinner-table talk in the Foles house mixed business with athletics — a combination that would later shape how Nick handled sudden wealth, fame, and the strange economics of being a backup quarterback who was, for a few weeks, the most valuable player in football. He has two sisters, Katie and Lacey, and the family rooted itself in Westlake Hills, one of Austin’s most football-obsessed suburbs.

At Westlake High School, Foles became a two-year starter at quarterback and put up numbers that still sit in the school’s record conversation: 5,658 passing yards and 56 touchdowns across his varsity career. Westlake is the same program that produced Drew Brees a decade earlier, and the comparison followed Foles from the start — two tall, precise Texas high school quarterbacks with strong arms and stronger reputations for preparation. Foles was not the most heavily recruited quarterback in the country, but he was a legitimate Division I prospect, and his high school production earned him a scholarship to Michigan State, where he enrolled in 2007.

The Austin upbringing matters to the money story because Foles has never behaved like a player chasing a lifestyle. Teammates, coaches, and reporters who covered him in Philadelphia, Jacksonville, and Chicago describe the same person: early to the facility, plain in his tastes, open about his Christian faith, and uninterested in the display side of NFL wealth. That temperament shows up in the financial record. There is no verified reporting of a car collection, a watch habit, or a string of splashy purchases. The two homes tied to his name in public records are a Newport Beach house bought in 2016 and a Florida home bought after the Jacksonville contract — sensible, family-sized purchases for a player at his income level, not the portfolio of someone spending like a franchise quarterback.

Foles’s father Larry owned and operated restaurants, which gave Nick an early look at how a small business actually runs — payroll, margins, slow Tuesdays — and he has said in interviews that watching his father work shaped his own attitude toward money. It also explains something reporters noticed later: when Foles signed the biggest contract of his life in Jacksonville, he talked about it less as a jackpot than as a responsibility, and when the deal fell apart within a year, he absorbed the setback without the public bitterness that usually follows a failed franchise-quarterback experiment.

Education

Foles’s college path took a detour that, in hindsight, reads like a preview of his pro career: the right place arrived only after the first one didn’t work out. He enrolled at Michigan State in 2007, redshirted as a freshman, and then transferred to the University of Arizona, where he played from 2008 to 2011. The move cost him a year of eligibility and put him behind the depth chart, but Arizona gave him the starting job and the throwing volume that would define his game.

At Arizona, Foles became the most prolific passer in school history. Across his college career he threw for 10,068 yards and 67 touchdowns, completing 938 of 1,403 passes, and he left Tucson holding a stack of Wildcats passing records. His junior season in 2010 produced 3,191 passing yards, 20 touchdowns, and 10 interceptions; his senior year in 2011 was better still, and it put him firmly on NFL draft boards as a tall, accurate pocket passer with the arm to make every throw. The knock on him then was the same knock that followed him through the pros: limited mobility, a deliberate release, and questions about whether his game would translate against NFL speed.

The education story did not end when he left Arizona. In 2017, during his second stint with the Eagles, Foles enrolled as an online graduate student at Liberty University, working toward a master’s degree in divinity. He has spoken openly since his early twenties about wanting to become a pastor after football — a youth pastor, specifically — and the divinity degree was the concrete step toward it. That plan is central to understanding his post-retirement life and his finances: Foles was preparing for a second career that pays a fraction of an NFL salary while he was still cashing NFL checks, which is unusual discipline for a player in his prime earning years.

His wife, Tori, was a volleyball player at Arizona, and the two met on campus — a detail that ties his college years directly to his family life. The University of Arizona is where Foles found both his starting job and his future wife, and he has returned to Tucson for alumni events and stayed connected to the program since.

Career Journey

The Philadelphia Eagles selected Nick Foles in the third round of the 2012 NFL Draft, 88th overall, and signed him to a four-year rookie contract worth $2.77 million, with $543,520 guaranteed, per Over The Cap. He was the third quarterback on the depth chart behind Michael Vick and Trent Edwards, and nobody in the building expected him to start as a rookie. Then Vick got hurt, and Foles started six games in 2012, throwing for 1,699 yards with six touchdowns and five interceptions. The numbers were ordinary. The composure was not, and the Eagles kept him.

Chip Kelly arrived as head coach in 2013, and Foles’s career changed in a single season. When Vick went down again in Week 5, Foles took over and produced one of the great statistical seasons by a quarterback in league history: 27 touchdown passes against just two interceptions, a 119.2 passer rating that led the NFL, and a Pro Bowl selection. On November 3, 2013, against the Oakland Raiders, he threw seven touchdown passes in a 49-20 win, tying the NFL single-game record. He also strung together 25 consecutive completions at one point, tying another league record. The Eagles won the NFC East, and Foles, a third-round pick making less than $700,000 a year, was suddenly a franchise-quarterback conversation.

The 2014 season broke that momentum. Foles fractured his collarbone in Week 9 against Houston and missed the rest of the year. Mark Sanchez finished the season, the Eagles missed the playoffs, and Kelly’s patience with Foles ran out. In March 2015, Philadelphia traded him to the St. Louis Rams for Sam Bradford, a quarterback-for-quarterback swap that both teams would come to regret. Foles signed a two-year, $24.5 million extension with the Rams in August 2015 — his first real money — but the fit was poor. He was benched for Case Keenum in November after throwing seven touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and the Rams released him in July 2016 after one season. He collected $6.04 million of that extension, per Over The Cap, less than a quarter of its headline value.

That release nearly ended his career. Foles has said since that he considered retiring after the miserable 2015 season in St. Louis, and his co-author Josh Cooley wrote that retirement was a live thought at the time. Instead, he signed a one-year deal with the Kansas City Chiefs in August 2016, reuniting with Andy Reid, the coach who had drafted him in Philadelphia. He started one game — a win over Jacksonville — earned $1.75 million, and the Chiefs declined his option. In March 2017, the Eagles brought him home on a two-year, $11 million deal with $7 million guaranteed, to back up Carson Wentz. It looked like a quiet homecoming for a career backup. It became the defining chapter of his life.

The Jacksonville chapter, which began in March 2019 with the four-year, $88 million contract, was supposed to be the payoff. Foles broke his left collarbone in the first game of the 2019 season against Kansas City, missed eight games, and was benched for rookie Gardner Minshew in Week 13 after returning. He started four games for the Jaguars and collected $30.125 million of the deal, per Over The Cap — a large sum, but barely a third of the headline number. In March 2020, Jacksonville traded him to the Chicago Bears for a fourth-round pick, and Foles restructured into a three-year, $24 million deal. He started seven games in 2020, spent 2021 as a backup, earned $16 million of that contract, and was released in May 2022.

His final contract came from the Indianapolis Colts in May 2022: two years, $6.2 million. He started two games, suffered a rib injury in Week 17 against the New York Giants, and was released in May 2023. He went unsigned through the entire 2023 season, and on August 8, 2024, he announced his retirement in a video posted to social media, choosing to retire as a Philadelphia Eagle. The Eagles honored him in a ceremony at their home opener on September 16, 2024, against the Atlanta Falcons. Across 11 seasons and six teams, Foles played 71 games with 58 starts, throwing for 14,227 yards, 82 touchdowns, and 47 interceptions, with an 86.2 career passer rating.

Rise to Fame

Foles’s fame has a strange shape: he is one of the most famous quarterbacks of his generation despite spending most of his career as a backup. The 2013 season made him known to football fans. The 2017 postseason made him known to everyone else. When Carson Wentz tore his ACL on December 10, 2017, against the Rams, the Eagles’ Super Bowl hopes were widely written off. Foles started the final three regular-season games, then beat Atlanta 15-10 in the divisional round and demolished Minnesota 38-7 in the NFC Championship Game, throwing for 352 yards and three touchdowns against the league’s top-ranked defense.

Super Bowl LII, played on February 4, 2018, against the New England Patriots, is the game that defines him. The Eagles won 41-33 in a shootout, and Foles threw for 373 yards and three touchdowns — and caught one more. With 38 seconds left in the second quarter, on fourth-and-goal from the Patriots’ one-yard line, the Eagles ran the play now known as the “Philly Special”: Foles drifted toward the right side of the formation, tight end Trey Burton took the snap and threw back across the field, and Foles caught the touchdown pass in the end zone. It was the first Super Bowl touchdown catch by a quarterback, and it gave Philadelphia a 22-12 halftime lead in a game the Eagles never trailed again. Foles was named Super Bowl MVP, delivering the franchise its first Lombardi Trophy.

The aftermath of that night explains a lot about his finances. In the spring of 2018, the Cleveland Browns offered the Eagles a second-round pick — the 35th overall selection — for Foles, according to NFL.com’s Michael Silver, and the Eagles ran the idea past Foles himself. He said he wanted to stay in Philadelphia, and the Eagles turned the trade down. A month later, in April 2018, the team reworked his contract, giving him a $2 million signing bonus and millions in incentives, plus a mutual option for 2019 that carried a $20 million salary if exercised. Foles started four games in 2018, including a playoff win over Chicago in the wild-card round — the “double doink” game — before the Eagles lost to New Orleans in the divisional round.

When the Eagles exercised the $20 million option in February 2019, Foles paid back the $2 million bonus to void it and become an unrestricted free agent, exactly as the contract allowed. The Eagles chose not to franchise-tag him, and he hit the open market as a 30-year-old Super Bowl MVP. That was the bargaining position that produced the Jacksonville deal — and the moment his career earnings curve bent sharply upward. His playoff record tells the story of why teams kept paying him: in six postseason games he completed 68.1 percent of his passes for 1,633 yards, 11 touchdowns, and a 98.8 passer rating, numbers far better than his regular-season line. In the games that mattered most, Nick Foles played like a franchise quarterback, and the market priced him like one for exactly one contract.

Main Sources of Income

Nick Foles’s wealth comes from one dominant source — NFL salary — with everything else a footnote by comparison. Over 11 seasons he signed eight contracts with six teams, and the two contract databases that track player pay put his career cash earnings at $87.5 million (Spotrac) or $83,755,520 (Over The Cap). The gap between the two figures comes from different counting methods: Spotrac’s total includes money counted differently across restructures and voided years, while Over The Cap tracks cash actually paid. Either way, the shape is the same. Roughly a third of his career pay arrived in a single calendar year, 2019, when Jacksonville paid him $30.125 million — the largest cash payment of his career, per Over The Cap.

The second income stream is the one most fans never see: playoff and Super Bowl money. The NFL pays postseason bonuses from a league pool, and a Super Bowl winner’s share is a six-figure sum for each player on the roster. Foles also earned contract incentives tied to playing time and postseason success, most visibly in the reworked 2018 Eagles deal, which added several million dollars in incentives if he became the starter and hit statistical benchmarks. Those incentive clauses mattered: he did become the starter, twice, in 2017 and 2018, and the Eagles paid him accordingly.

Endorsements form the third stream, and here Foles’s story is thinner than most Super Bowl MVPs’. His best-known deal came in 2019, when he became the first mainstream athlete to endorse Lululemon, the athletic apparel brand — a partnership widely reported at the time and unusual for a company that had built its business on yoga and women’s athletic wear. The deal made him the first NFL player to front a Lululemon campaign. No dollar figure was ever published for the agreement, and it sits in the category of deals that pay well but do not change a net worth calculation built on $87 million of salary.

His book is the fourth stream, and the most revealing about his priorities. Believe It: My Journey of Success, Failure, and Overcoming the Odds, published by Tyndale on June 26, 2018, with writing collaborator Josh Cooley and a foreword by Frank Reich, debuted at No. 5 on the New York Times bestseller list. Before publication, Foles and his wife Tori decided to donate 100 percent of his proceeds to Christian charities and humanitarian causes. Part of that money sent 70 children from inner-city Philadelphia to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes’ annual sports camp at Kutztown University in June 2018. The book earned real money — a New York Times bestseller from a Super Bowl MVP in the summer after the win — and Foles gave all of his share away. Any net worth estimate that treats the book as an income stream should also note that its proceeds left his accounts by design.

There is no verified fifth stream. Unlike many retired athletes, Foles has no reported restaurant group, no media contract, no coaching salary, and no public investment portfolio. He has spoken about ministry as his next chapter, not broadcasting or business, and his public record since retirement points toward family and faith work rather than a new commercial venture. That absence is itself a data point: his net worth is a function of what he kept from his playing career, not of post-career earnings, and it is likely to stay roughly flat or drift downward in real terms unless he takes on paid work.

Stylized illustration of a quarterback catching a touchdown pass in the end zone amid falling confetti
The “Philly Special” — Foles catching a touchdown pass in Super Bowl LII — remains one of the most famous plays in NFL history. (Illustration: NetWorthCraft)

Salary and Earnings

The contract-by-contract record is where the Foles money story gets honest, because the headline numbers and the money actually paid diverge sharply on almost every deal he signed. The table below uses Over The Cap’s cash-paid figures, the most conservative public record, with Spotrac’s $87.5 million career total noted as the higher count.

Team / DealYear signedHeadline valueActually earned
Philadelphia Eagles (rookie deal)2012$2.77 million / 4 yrs$2.09 million
St. Louis Rams (extension)2015$24.5 million / 2 yrs$6.04 million
Kansas City Chiefs2016$8.5 million / 2 yrs (option)$1.75 million
Philadelphia Eagles (return)2017$11 million / 2 yrs$4.00 million
Philadelphia Eagles (reworked)2018$29 million / 2 yrs (incl. option)$11.25 million
Jacksonville Jaguars2019$88 million / 4 yrs$30.13 million
Chicago Bears (restructured)2020$24 million / 3 yrs$16.00 million
Indianapolis Colts2022$6.2 million / 2 yrs$2.60 million

Three deals tell the whole story. The Rams extension looked like $24.5 million and paid $6.04 million, because Foles was released after one season and the guarantees were structured to protect the team. The Jaguars deal looked like $88 million and paid $30.13 million, because he broke his collarbone in Week 1, lost the job to a sixth-round rookie, and was traded after a single season. The Bears restructure looked like $24 million and paid $16 million, the best ratio of any of his big deals, because he stayed on the roster for two seasons. Add it up and the pattern is clear: Foles signed contracts worth about $194 million in headline value across his career and collected roughly $84–88 million of it. The gap is not a scandal — it is how NFL contracts work, with non-guaranteed years and team options that vanish when a player gets hurt or benched — but it is the reason his net worth sits at $40 million rather than $80 million.

His peak earning year was 2019, when Jacksonville’s $30.125 million cash payment landed in a single season. His largest cap number was $13.6 million in 2018, and his career average annual value across all deals was $7.61 million, per Over The Cap. For comparison, his rookie deal paid him $692,130 a year on average — and in 2013, the season he threw 27 touchdowns against two interceptions and made the Pro Bowl, he earned roughly $570,000 in base salary. The most productive season of his life paid him less than a backup quarterback’s weekly check in 2019. That mismatch is the central irony of his career: his best football came when he was cheapest, and his biggest checks came when he played the least.

Taxes take a large share before any net worth figure makes sense. Foles earned his money in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Florida, Illinois, and Indiana, among other states, and NFL players pay the “jock tax” — income tax in every state where they play road games. Federal tax alone on $87 million of career earnings runs to tens of millions, and agent fees (typically 3 percent), union dues, and living costs during 11 seasons in six cities cut further. A player who grosses $87.5 million and keeps, after tax and fees, roughly half of it is in normal territory. That math lands almost exactly on the $40 million figure Celebrity Net Worth publishes, which is why we anchor there. The $74 million figure from Lines would require Foles to have kept roughly 85 percent of his gross career earnings, which does not square with the tax record of any NFL player at his income level.

One more number belongs in this section because it explains the 2019 windfall: the Jaguars guaranteed $50.125 million of the $88 million deal at signing, as reported at the time, though Over The Cap records total guarantees of $45.125 million under its own methodology. The difference between the two guarantee figures is a reminder that even “guaranteed” money in the NFL has definitions that shift by source. What is not in dispute is the cash: $30.125 million in 2019, and nothing further from Jacksonville after the trade to Chicago. Foles also entered Forbes’ list of the world’s highest-paid athletes in 2019 on the strength of that deal — the only year of his career he appeared on it.

Businesses and Investments

Here is where an honest profile of Nick Foles differs from the content-mill versions that fill page one of the search results. Several low-quality sites credit Foles with a restaurant chain, a real estate portfolio, and assorted business ventures. None of those claims traces to a named source, a business filing, or a credible report, and we do not repeat them. The verifiable record shows no business empire. His father owned restaurants in Austin, which is a fact about Larry Foles, not a business venture of Nick’s.

What the record does show is a player who treated his NFL income as the business itself. Foles’s investment profile, to the extent it is public, is conservative: a family home in Newport Beach purchased in 2016, a second home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, purchased after the Jacksonville deal, and no reported stakes in startups, franchises, or funds. He has never announced a venture fund, a media company, or a product line. His only commercial product is his book, and he donated its proceeds.

That restraint is a financial strategy in its own right, even if it is not a glamorous one. Many players with $87 million in career earnings spend their way into trouble; Foles’s public record contains no bankruptcies, no lawsuits over debts, no distressed asset sales, and no reports of extravagant spending. His lifestyle, as described by people who covered him, is modest for a Super Bowl MVP: family, church, and football, in that order. If he invested his post-tax earnings in ordinary index funds and real estate at ordinary returns, a $40 million net worth in 2026 is the expected outcome, not a surprise.

The forward-looking question is what he does next. Foles has said since his twenties that he wants to become a pastor, and he spent his playing years working toward a master’s degree in divinity at Liberty University. Ministry is not a wealth-building career, and Foles appears to know that and to have chosen it anyway. Unless he takes a broadcasting job — something he has not announced and has shown little interest in — his net worth is likely to plateau around its current level and grow only through investment returns on what he has already banked. That is a different arc from quarterbacks who convert fame into media empires, and it is the honest one to report.

Brand Deals and Sponsorships

Foles’s endorsement record is short, and its most interesting entry is the Lululemon deal. In 2019, shortly after signing with Jacksonville, he became the first mainstream athlete to endorse Lululemon, and the first NFL player to front one of its campaigns. The pairing made sense for the brand — Foles was a Super Bowl MVP with a reputation for calm and discipline — and it made headlines precisely because Lululemon had never used a male professional athlete as a face of the brand. No financial terms were disclosed, and endorsement analysts who covered the deal treated it as a prestige partnership rather than a top-tier payday. It did not carry the eight-figure value of a shoe deal or a national beverage campaign.

Beyond Lululemon, Foles’s endorsement footprint is light. He appeared in local and regional campaigns in Philadelphia during the Super Bowl run, and his name carried obvious value in the months after February 2018, when Eagles merchandise and memorabilia featuring the Super Bowl MVP sold heavily. But he never signed the kind of national portfolio — soft drinks, cars, insurance, fast food — that turns a famous quarterback into a year-round pitchman. Part of that is temperament: Foles has always been private and faith-forward, and his public statements suggest he turned down opportunities that did not fit. Part of it is timing: his fame peaked in February 2018, and by the time brands could build a campaign around him, he was a Jaguar fighting for a starting job.

His book deal with Tyndale is the closest thing to a second major commercial partnership, and it is the one he chose to give away. The memoir’s advance and royalties were real money — a New York Times bestseller by a sitting Super Bowl MVP commands a serious advance — but Foles and Tori decided before publication that every dollar of his proceeds would go to charity. The Fellowship of Christian Athletes camp donation in June 2018, sending 70 children from inner-city Philadelphia to Kutztown University, was one visible result. For net worth purposes, the book counts as income he chose not to keep, which is why our estimate does not add a book fortune on top of his salary.

The endorsement picture, taken together, explains the gap between Foles’s fame and his fortune. A quarterback with his resume — Super Bowl MVP, Pro Bowl, a 27-to-2 season — would normally carry several million dollars a year in endorsements for a decade. Foles carried one notable deal and a donated book. His wealth is almost entirely his salary, which is why the contract table in the previous section, not a list of sponsors, is the document that explains his net worth.

Stylized illustration of a quarterback signing a contract at a desk with a football helmet beside him
Contract signings defined Foles’s wealth — eight deals across six teams, with headline values far above the cash actually paid. (Illustration: NetWorthCraft)

Houses, Cars and Other Assets

The most documented property in Nick Foles’s name is the Newport Beach, California, home he bought in 2016 for about $2.71 million, while he was with the Kansas City Chiefs. The house, in a quiet residential neighborhood near the coast, has been written about repeatedly since, with current value estimates ranging from about $1.85 million to $2.7 million depending on the source — a spread that reflects how thin the public record is rather than any real price movement. What is solid is the purchase: a roughly $2.7 million family home bought with Rams extension money, in a city where he and Tori had ties.

His second known property is in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, near Jacksonville. Foles bought a home there after signing with the Jaguars in 2019, and put it up for sale in 2020 after the trade to Chicago. The listing drew local coverage at the time, and the timing tells its own story: the house was a one-year residence, bought for a job that lasted one season. No sale price was widely reported, and we do not state one.

There is no confirmed reporting of a current primary residence beyond those two purchases, and we do not guess at one. Foles is a private person who has not publicized his address since retirement, and the family has lived in several cities across his career — Philadelphia, St. Louis, Kansas City, Jacksonville, Chicago, Indianapolis — without a single permanent base emerging in public records. The Newport Beach home is the closest thing to a long-term anchor in his property record, and even there, the reporting is a mix of purchase records and estimates rather than a confirmed current valuation.

On cars, the public record is silent, and the silence is informative. No automotive outlet has profiled a Foles collection, and no dealership has used him in a campaign. Players who collect cars generate coverage; Foles has generated none, which fits everything else known about his spending. He is not reported to own a yacht, a private jet, or a private island, and the outlets that track celebrity assets list none for him. The honest summary of his assets is unglamorous: two houses bought with football money, a retirement account and investment portfolio that no public source can see, and a Super Bowl ring — the one asset whose value has nothing to do with money.

That ring deserves a line of its own. Super Bowl LII was the first championship in Eagles history, and Foles’s MVP ring is the physical artifact of the night that made him famous. Championship rings have sold at auction for six figures when players part with them, but Foles has given no indication he would ever sell his, and its value to him is not financial. It is, however, the reason his name still carries commercial value years after retirement: the MVP of a Super Bowl never really stops being the MVP of a Super Bowl, and that reputation is the asset that could still produce income if he chose to use it.

Awards and Achievements

Foles’s trophy case is small and heavy at the same time: few items, each one significant. The list below covers the honors that carry weight in both his career story and his earning power, because each one changed what teams were willing to pay him.

  • Super Bowl champion (LII) — February 4, 2018, Eagles 41, Patriots 33. The first Super Bowl title in franchise history.
  • Super Bowl MVP (LII) — 373 passing yards, three passing touchdowns, and one receiving touchdown on the “Philly Special.”
  • Pro Bowl selection (2013) — after a season with 27 touchdowns, two interceptions, and a league-leading 119.2 passer rating.
  • NFL passer rating leader (2013) — 119.2, the third-highest single-season rating in league history at the time.
  • NFL record: seven touchdown passes in a game (tied) — November 3, 2013, against Oakland.
  • NFL record: 25 consecutive completions (tied) — set during the 2013 season.
  • NFL record: best touchdown-to-interception ratio in a season — 27 touchdowns against two interceptions in 2013, a record at the time.
  • NFC Offensive Player of the Week / NFC Offensive Player of the Month (2013) — for the seven-touchdown game and the November stretch that carried the Eagles to the division title.
  • New York Times bestselling author (2018) — Believe It debuted at No. 5 on the bestseller list in July 2018.
  • Most prolific passer in University of Arizona history — 10,068 career passing yards and 67 touchdowns, with a stack of school records at graduation.

The playoff line deserves emphasis because it is the strongest evidence that Foles’s value was real, not a product of one hot month. In six postseason games he completed 68.1 percent of his passes for 1,633 yards and 11 touchdowns against five interceptions, with a 98.8 passer rating. His 2017 postseason alone — wins over Atlanta, Minnesota, and New England — produced 971 passing yards and six touchdowns in three games. Yardbarker, writing at his retirement in August 2024, argued he has a legitimate case as the greatest backup quarterback in NFL history, and the argument rests on that postseason record: no backup in league history has delivered a Super Bowl MVP performance.

The awards also explain the shape of his pay. The Pro Bowl season of 2013 earned him almost nothing in the moment — he was on a rookie deal — but it established the reputation that produced the Rams extension, the Eagles return, and eventually the Jacksonville contract. The Super Bowl MVP award did the same at a larger scale: it turned a 29-year-old career backup into a $22-million-a-year quarterback, if only for one contract. Awards, in the NFL, are more than honors. They are the bargaining power that converts a good season into a guaranteed check, and Foles’s career is a clean case study in how that conversion works — and how quickly it can reverse when the next season goes wrong.

Net Worth Growth Over the Years

No public source publishes a year-by-year net worth series for Nick Foles, so the table below is a NetWorthCraft estimate built from his cumulative cash earnings, the tax and fee haircut described in the salary section, and the published point estimates that exist for 2024–2026. Treat the early years as an earnings trajectory, not as sourced net worth figures.

YearEstimated net worthWhat moved it
2013$1 million – $2 millionPro Bowl season on a rookie deal; first real earnings
2015$5 million – $8 millionRams extension; first $6 million cash year
2017$10 million – $14 millionEagles return; Super Bowl run begins
2018$18 million – $22 millionSuper Bowl MVP; reworked deal; book published
2019$30 million – $38 millionJacksonville pays $30.1 million in one year
2020$33 million – $40 millionBears restructure; steady accumulation
2022$36 million – $44 millionFinal contract with Indianapolis
2024$40 million – $50 millionRetirement; Celebrity Net Worth lists $40 million
2026$40 million – $74 millionPublished range widens as Lines lists $74 million

The shape of that curve is the story of this article. Foles’s wealth did not grow steadily; it jumped in three steps — the Rams extension in 2015, the Super Bowl and reworked deal in 2018, and the Jacksonville payment in 2019 — and then flattened when the contracts stopped. The 2019 jump is the largest single-year move of his financial life: one season in Jacksonville paid him more than his first seven seasons combined. After 2022, with no new contracts, the curve goes flat, and any growth since then comes from investment returns rather than income.

The honest caveat is that the 2026 range is wider than the 2024 range, not narrower, because a new outlier entered the record. Lines lists Foles at $74 million, a figure no other major outlet matches, and it pulls the top of the range up by nearly half. We publish the full range because the brief requires it, but the weight of the evidence — Celebrity Net Worth at $40 million, ComingSoon at $40–50 million, and the arithmetic of $87.5 million in gross career earnings against normal tax and fee rates — sits at the bottom of that range. A reader who wants a single number should use $40 million. A reader who wants the honest picture should remember that the $74 million figure exists, that it is an outlier, and that no source has published the workings behind it.

Social Media Presence

Nick Foles keeps a public but low-key social media presence, and it reads like the man himself: faith, family, football, and little else. His Instagram account, @nickfoles, carries photos of his wife and children, training clips, and posts about his faith, with captions that run long and personal rather than promotional. His X account, @NickFoles, is where he announced his retirement on August 8, 2024, in a video message that thanked Philadelphia and spoke about the time he would now have with his family.

He does not run a content business. There are no sponsored post series, no paid partnerships visible on his feeds, and no regular cadence of brand content. His posts spike around football moments — the retirement announcement, the September 2024 ceremony at Lincoln Financial Field, appearances at Eagles alumni events — and go quiet for long stretches in between. That pattern is consistent with someone who uses social media as a personal channel, not a revenue stream, and it is another reason his post-retirement income is likely modest.

The retirement video is worth describing because it set the tone for everything since. Foles filmed it simply, spoke directly to the camera, and framed the decision around family and faith rather than football. He said he was retiring as an Eagle, thanked the city of Philadelphia, and talked about the extra time he would have with Tori and their children. The video was shared widely by the Eagles and by NFL media, and it closed his playing career on the note he had always struck: grateful, plainspoken, and pointed toward something other than football.

Personal Life

Nick Foles married Victoria “Tori” Moore Foles in April 2014. Tori, born June 6, 1990, in Brea, California, played volleyball at the University of Arizona, where the two met as students, and she is the sister of former NFL tight end Evan Moore. Their daughter, Lily James, was born in 2017, and their son, Duke Nathan, was born in June 2020. The family has moved with his career — Philadelphia, St. Louis, Kansas City, Jacksonville, Chicago, Indianapolis — and Tori has been a constant presence through the benchings, the trades, and the Super Bowl run.

Tori’s health is part of their public story, and it is a story they have told themselves. She lives with POTS — postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, a disorder of the autonomic nervous system — and Foles has written and spoken about how her condition shaped their marriage, including the strain of his absences during the season and the way her health influenced decisions about where to live and how to plan. The book Believe It deals with her health struggles directly, and Foles has said in interviews that watching Tori manage a chronic condition changed how he thought about his own career setbacks.

Faith is the through-line of his personal life, and it is not a footnote. Foles is a devout Christian who has spoken about his beliefs in nearly every major interview of his career, and his post-football plans center on ministry. He enrolled in Liberty University’s online master’s program in divinity in 2017, while still an active player, and has said repeatedly that he wants to become a pastor — a youth pastor, in the phrasing he has used most often — after football. He helped start two Fellowship of Christian Athletes huddles in Philadelphia before the 2017 season and bought more than 100 Bibles so each attendee could own one. That work continued after retirement, and it is the clearest signal of what his next decade looks like.

His parents, Larry and Melissa Foles, remain in Austin, and his sisters Katie and Lacey have stayed close to the family. Foles’s father, who owned restaurants in Austin, gave him an early education in how a business runs, and Foles has credited that upbringing with his approach to money: careful, unshowy, and focused on family rather than display. The family’s public record contains no scandals, no lawsuits, and no tabloid episodes, which is itself unusual for a Super Bowl MVP and a fact worth recording plainly.

Sources & Reporting

Every figure in this article traces to a named source. Contract and earnings figures come from Spotrac (career earnings $87.5 million) and Over The Cap (cash earnings $83,755,520, contract-by-contract guarantees and amounts earned). Net worth estimates come from Celebrity Net Worth ($40 million), Lines ($74 million), and ComingSoon ($40–50 million). Career statistics come from Pro Football Reference via StatMuse and Wikipedia (14,227 yards, 82 touchdowns, 47 interceptions, 86.2 rating). The 2018 contract rework and the 2019 option buyout are documented by NBC Sports Philadelphia, NFL Network reporting via theScore, and Pro Football Rumors. The book, the charity donation, and the divinity studies are documented by Tyndale, Publishers Weekly, and co-author Josh Cooley’s account. Family details come from DailyWikiBio and Yardbarker, which also argued his case as the greatest backup quarterback in NFL history. Reporting window: contracts and career events 2012–2024; net worth estimates as published through November 2026. Where sources disagree — most importantly on the net worth total and on the career earnings total — this article publishes the range and names who says what, rather than picking the bigger number.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Nick Foles’ net worth in 2026?

Nick Foles’ net worth is estimated at $40 million to $74 million as of November 2026. The most widely cited figure is $40 million, published by Celebrity Net Worth and supported by ComingSoon’s $40–50 million range. Lines lists a higher figure of $74 million, which no other major outlet matches. We anchor on $40 million because it lines up with his $87.5 million in career earnings once taxes, agent fees, and living costs are accounted for.

How much did Nick Foles earn in his NFL career?

Spotrac lists Nick Foles’ career earnings at $87.5 million, while Over The Cap records $83,755,520 in cash actually paid. The difference comes from how each service counts restructures and voided contract years. His biggest single-year payment was $30.125 million from the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2019. Across his career he signed contracts worth about $194 million in headline value and collected roughly $84–88 million of it, because most of the money in NFL deals is non-guaranteed.

What was Nick Foles’ biggest contract?

His biggest contract was the four-year, $88 million deal he signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars in March 2019, with a reported $50.125 million guaranteed. He collected only $30.125 million of it. He broke his left collarbone in the first game of the 2019 season, lost the starting job to rookie Gardner Minshew, and was traded to the Chicago Bears after one season.

Is Nick Foles retired?

Yes. Nick Foles announced his retirement from the NFL on August 8, 2024, in a video posted to social media, choosing to retire as a Philadelphia Eagle. The Eagles honored him in a ceremony at their home opener on September 16, 2024, against the Atlanta Falcons. His last NFL game was with the Indianapolis Colts in the 2022 season.

What is Nick Foles doing now?

Since retiring, Nick Foles has focused on family and faith. He enrolled in Liberty University’s online master’s program in divinity in 2017 and has said for years that he wants to become a pastor — a youth pastor, specifically — after football. He has not announced a broadcasting job, a coaching role, or a business venture, and his public appearances since retirement have centered on church and Eagles alumni events.

Who is Nick Foles’ wife?

Nick Foles’ wife is Tori Moore Foles, a former University of Arizona volleyball player he met in college. They married in April 2014. Tori is the sister of former NFL tight end Evan Moore. They have two children whose names are public: daughter Lily James, born in 2017, and son Duke Nathan, born in June 2020. Tori lives with POTS, a disorder of the autonomic nervous system, which the couple has spoken about publicly.

How many Super Bowls did Nick Foles win?

Nick Foles won one Super Bowl: Super Bowl LII on February 4, 2018, when the Philadelphia Eagles beat the New England Patriots 41-33. Foles was named Super Bowl MVP after throwing for 373 yards and three touchdowns — and catching a touchdown pass on the famous “Philly Special” play. It was the first Super Bowl title in Eagles history.

What is Nick Foles’ salary now?

Nick Foles has no NFL salary. His last contract was a two-year, $6.2 million deal with the Indianapolis Colts signed in May 2022, from which he earned $2.6 million before being released in May 2023. Since his retirement in August 2024, his income comes from investments and any remaining endorsement or book income, none of which is publicly disclosed — which is why his net worth is estimated as a range rather than a precise figure.

The Bottom Line

Final Thoughts

Nick Foles’s financial story is the opposite of the usual athlete cautionary tale, and it is also the opposite of the usual athlete success story. He did not lose his money, and he did not multiply it into an empire. He earned $87.5 million across 11 seasons, kept roughly half of it after tax and fees, and walked away at 35 with an estimated $40 million and a plan to become a pastor. The range we publish — $40 million to $74 million — exists because one outlet lists a far higher figure, but the evidence points to the bottom of it, and we say so plainly.

What makes his story worth telling is the gap between the headline contracts and the cash. He signed deals worth about $194 million and collected less than half of that, because the Rams cut him after one season of a $24.5 million extension and the Jaguars traded him after one season of an $88 million deal. The Super Bowl MVP season that made him famous paid him less than $600,000 in base salary. The season that paid him $30 million ended with a broken collarbone and a benching. Football paid him for the player teams hoped he would become, and it paid him most when he played least.

He also gave away the one stream of income that had nothing to do with football, donating every dollar of his book proceeds to charity before the book was even published. That choice, more than any contract, explains who Nick Foles is: a quarterback who treated the biggest night of his life as a responsibility rather than a jackpot, and who left the game with his money, his family, and his faith intact. The fortune is real. The interesting part is what he did with it — which, mostly, was keep it quiet and give some of it away.

Published on November 6, 2026. Last reviewed November 2026. Found an error? See our corrections policy.

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Every figure in this article was checked against primary reporting — business press, filings, rich lists and verified interviews — before publication. Estimates carry a visible date and appear as ranges where the record is incomplete; they are corrected when new evidence emerges.