Tarik Cohen net worth: How much is Panthers RB worth in 2023?

Tarik Cohen is set to return to the NFL. On Tuesday, multiple outlets reported that the one-time All-Pro and Pro Bowler agreed to join the Carolina Panthers as a practice player.

Cohen has not played since 2020, when he suffered multiple injuries to his leg when he was tackled while returning a punt against the Atlanta Falcons.

His net worth as of 2023 is estimated to be $5 million, with most of his earnings coming on the field. Cohen signed two contracts during his five years with the Chicago Bears.

The first was his standard rookie deal worth $3 million, and the second was a three-year, $17.25 million extension. However, he was released in 2022 while rehabilitating from injury.

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Tarik Cohen career overview

Drafted 119th overall out of North Carolina A&T in 2017, Tarik Cohen immediately established himself as a very versatile player.

He accumulated over 1,500 all-purpose yards, mostly from returns, and became the first rookie since the legendary Gale Sayers to score a rushing, receiving, passing and returning touchdown.

The next year, he had multiple career-highs on his way to a Pro Bowl appearance. The Bears, meanwhile, won the NFC North at 12-4 but lost 16-15 to the Philadelphia Eagles in the Wild Card round after Cody Parkey had missed a game-winning field goal with five seconds left.

After suffering the aforementioned leg injury, Cohen spent all of 2021 rehabilitating. However, he tore his Achilles tendon in May 2022 while live streaming a workout session on Instagram.

Just a week before, he had written a piece for the Players' Tribune detailing his struggles before becoming an NFL player, including his aforementioned injury in 2020:

"No one beyond your inner circle is going to know the full extent of your injuries.

"Everyone is just going to think it's a regular ACL tear. And, like you, they've seen Odell and a bunch of other guys come back from that in less than a year. So people are going to start questioning you on a bunch of different levels."

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What Tarik Cohen and others have said about returning

Before he injured himself during the Instagram live stream, Cohen was optimistic about a comeback, saying during a Q&A in 2022:

"I want to be the player that I was before I got hurt. I won't let myself come back before I'm ready and before I feel like I can put the same performances on that I was putting on before I got hurt."

Shortly after his signing with the Carolina Panthers was announced, his wife Jasmine Gray posted on her Instagram Stories:

Jasmine Gray reacting to Tarik Cohen's impending NFL comeback