JuJu Smith-Schuster Net Worth

What is JuJu Smith-Schuster's Net Worth?

JuJu Smith-Schuster is a professional football wide receiver who has a net worth of $14 million. JuJu Smith-Schuster is probably best known for playing for the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers and Kansas City Chiefs. With the Chiefs, he won Super Bowl LVII in 2023. Previously, Smith-Schuster played for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 2017 to 2021, and set a number of franchise records with the team, including for the longest touchdown reception (97 yards).

Contracts & Career Earnings

In 2017, Smith-Schuster signed a four year, $4.2 million deal with the Steelers that came with $1.84 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $1.19 million. When that contract came up for renewal, JuJu actually turned down three larger, multi-year offers from rival teams to stay with the Steelers. Instead, in March 2021, he signed a one-year $8 million with the Steelers. Through the end of the 2025 season, Juju had earned $40 million in NFL salary/

Early Life and High School

JuJu Smith-Schuster was born as John Smith on November 22, 1996 in Long Beach, California as the second of seven children of single mother Sammy. He is of African-American and Samoan descent. When Smith was four years old, he gained his stepfather Lawrence Schuster, whose surname he eventually added to his own.

Smith-Schuster played football from an early age, and played youth football in Snoop Dogg's Snoop Youth Football League. As a teenager, he attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School, where he played as a wide receiver and safety on the Jackrabbits football team. Smith-Schuster was ranked as the second-best wide receiver in his class.

Collegiate Career

For college, Smith-Schuster attended the University of Southern California and played three seasons with the Trojans football team. In his freshman season in 2014, he compiled 54 receptions for 724 yards and five touchdowns. As a sophomore, Smith-Schuster led the Trojans with 89 receptions for 1,454 yards and ten touchdowns. Finally, as a junior in 2016, he put up 70 receptions for 914 yards and ten touchdowns, and helped lead the Trojans to victory in the Rose Bowl.

Pittsburgh Steelers

In the 2017 NFL draft, Smith-Schuster was chosen in the second round by the Pittsburgh Steelers. The youngest player in the league, he made his debut in the Steelers' season-opening win over the Cleveland Browns. A week later, Smith-Schuster became the youngest NFL player to score a touchdown since Andy Livingston in 1964. At the end of October, he made his first career start at wide receiver and proceeded to record a season-high seven receptions for 193 receiving yards, as well as a franchise-record 97-yard touchdown. Smith-Schuster finished his incredible rookie season with 58 receptions for 917 yards and seven touchdowns as the Steelers finished first in the AFC North. In the playoffs, the team fell to the Jacksonville Jaguars in the Divisional Round. Smith-Schuster continued his success in 2018, finishing with a team-high and career-best 111 receptions for 1,426 yards. He also made his first career Pro Bowl.

Smith-Schuster followed his terrific 2018 season with a disappointing season in 2019. Beset by injury, he finished with a career-low 552 yards to go along with three touchdowns. Smith-Schuster performed better in 2020, recording 97 receptions for 831 yards and a career-high nine touchdowns. The Steelers made it back to the playoffs, where they lost to the Browns in the Wild Card Round. In 2021, Smith-Schuster re-signed with the team to a one-year contract. He went on to have his worst-ever career season, playing in just five games due to injury and recording 15 receptions for 129 yards. Back in the playoffs, the Steelers were eliminated by the Kansas City Chiefs in the Wild Card Round.

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Kansas City Chiefs, 2022

In March of 2022, Smith-Schuster signed a one-year contract with the Kansas City Chiefs. He had a solid regular season, posting 78 receptions for 933 yards and three touchdowns. The Chiefs finished first in the AFC West and advanced to the playoffs, where they defeated the Jaguars in the Divisional Round and the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Championship Game. In Super Bowl LVII, Smith-Schuster caught seven passes for 53 yards as the Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35.

New England Patriots

Smith-Schuster signed a three-year contract with the New England Patriots in March of 2023. However, after playing just one season, in which he recorded 29 receptions for 260 yards and one touchdown, he was let go by the team.

Return to Kansas City

Smith-Schuster returned to the Chiefs on a one-year contract in 2024. That season, he posted 17 receptions for 227 yards and two touchdowns as the Chiefs missed the playoffs.

Social Media

Smith-Schuster has leveraged his celebrity into a prolific career on social media, with channels on TikTok, YouTube, and Twitch, among other platforms. He has done many livestreams on Twitch, playing such video games as "Fortnite" and "Call of Duty: WWII," and has also done gaming and vlogging on YouTube. Smith-Schuster has occasionally run into trouble on social media, such as when he participated in the banned "milk crate challenge" on TikTok in 2021.

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