Aldon Smith's net worth: How much did controversial former Cowboys star earn in NFL?

Free agent NFL star Aldon Smith is best remembered for his stint with the San Francisco 49ers.

Outside linebacker Smith attended Raytown High School. In Missouri, where he played collegiate football, he won the Big 12 Defensive Freshman of the Year award.

The San Francisco 49ers selected Smith as the seventh overall selection in the 2011 NFL draft. He established 49ers records for both sacks by a rookie in a season and sacks in a single season. In 2012, he was chosen for both the first-team All-Pro and Pro Bowl.

Between 2011 and 2014, Aldon Smith played for the 49ers. He was an Oakland Raiders player from 2015 until 2017. Following a reported domestic violence event, he was cut in 2018. In 2020, Smith committed to the Dallas Cowboys.

Aldon Smith has earned a large sum of money and fame via his career as a football player in the NFL. Online sources estimate that he has a net worth of $1.3 million.

Initially, in his NFL career, Smith appeared to have Hall of Fame potential, but his off-field troubles ruined that. Nevertheless, Smith has still made a sizable sum of money during his NFL career. Aldon Smith has made $24,009,157 in nine NFL seasons, according to Spotrac.

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Aldon Smith’s off-field issues derailed his NFL career

Aldon Smith has undoubtedly been successful but has had many difficulties off the gridiron.

He received a nine-game suspension by the NFL in 2014 for breaking their drug use and conduct rules. Smith was also detained in 2014 after initiating a bogus bomb threat at the Los Angeles International Airport in April that year.

Smith has also been detained four times for DUI since 2012. He was subsequently released by the 49ers in 2015 after his third arrest. The Oakland Raiders signed Smith in September 2015. A year after a hit-and-run event, the NFL suspended Smith when he was playing for the Raiders.

In his early years in the league, Smith displayed much promise, but it appears that talent alone was insufficient for him.

His fellow players voted Smith the seventh-best player in the league in NFL Network's top 100 players heading into the 2013 season. That made him the second-highest debutant in league history and the second-highest defensive star on the list, both behind J.J. Watt. Smith was also voted the San Francisco 49ers MVP in 2012.