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Mason Crosby Wife, Family, Salary, Net worth, NFL Career
Georgetown High School graduate and Green Bay Packers kicker Mason Crosby is one of the NFL players who has been at the field for more than a decade. He got his football start at Benold Middle School and graduated from Georgetown High School in 2003 before accepting a scholarship offer to the University of Colorado while studying communications.
While playing for Colorado, Mason became the team’s star kicker thanks to his exceptional leg strength, most notably in 2004 against Iowa State. He was known for scoring goals in the final moments of the game and showing amazing clutch ability. He also served as the kickoff specialist for the Buffaloes and wowed fans with his talent for forcing touchbacks after touchdowns.
At the end of his college football career, MasonCrosby had a total of 31 school records. He is the school’s top scorer with 308 career points. He also earned first-team All-Big 12 selection for three consecutive years (2005-2006) and was named to The Sporting News All-Decade team for the first nine years of the 2000s. In addition, Mason was also recognized as a junior with unanimous first-team All-American honors.
During his senior year at school, he was SelectedFirst team All-American by Pro Football Weekly and the Walter Camp Football Foundation. He was also the first player in Big 12 conference history to be named Player of the Week eight times.
Mason Crosby NFL Career
Born and named Mason Walker Crosby in September3, 1984, the placekicker was selected in the sixth round by the Green Bay Packers in the 2007 NFL Draft with the 193rd overall pick. He was the third overall place kicker selected in that year’s draft.
Mason Crosby made his NFL debut against the Philadelphia Eagles and brought his clutch reputation to bear when he converted a 53-yarder and a 42-yard kick by two seconds to lead the Packers to a win over the visiting team. That kick made him the first rookie to score a game winner in the opening weekend since 1979. He also became the first player in league history to kick a 50-yard field goal and a game-winning field goal with less than a minute left in his NFL debut.
That feat made him the first rookie kicker to be named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week in opening weekend. He went on to lead the 2007 NFL season by 130 points and became the second rookie to have the most points in a season. With his 24 field goals, he also took first place in the NFC. At the end of his rookie season, Mason Crosby became the highest-scoring kicker in a season in franchise history and the third-highest season-scoring of any Packers player.
Mason hasn’t slowed down in his performance since 2007, he’s continued to put on strong plays, breaking old records, setting new ones, and earning countless professional awards. He has become one of the Packers’ most valuable players. As a result, the team re-signed him to a five-year contract on July 27, 2011, and then to a four-year contract extension on March 1, 2016.
As of 2017, the kicker has played in 176 regular season games, scoring 277 field goals from 345 field goal attempts.
Crosby, who is a proud Christian, attributes his achievements in life to God. He believes his relationship with Christ sustains him and the knowledge that God is taking care of him all the time, regardless of the outcome, keeps him going.
His salary, net worth
Getting into the NFL is a surefire path to a life of luxury. Mason Crosby has been able to afford a comfortable life for himself and his family because of the lucrative contracts he has struck with the Packers on various occasions.
The Packers’ top scorer signed a four-year, $16.1 million contract with the team on March 1, 2016. The contract, which sees him earn an average annual salary of $4.25 million, came with a signing bonus of $5 million and a $5 million guarantee.
In 2018, Mason Crosby will drive home a base salary of $3.150 million, a $700,000 roster bonus and a $150,000 training bonus on a $5.250 million cap hit and a dead cap Worth $6.3 million. This brings his estimated net worth to approximately $9 million.
Relationship – family, wife
Mason Crosby was born on September 3, 1984 in Lubbock, Texas to Jim and Karen Crosby. Both parents grew up in Dallas and his father played soccer as a running back for the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Miners and graduated from Texas Tech. The football player has two siblings – Ashley Fraser (sister) and Reed Crosby (brother).
The Crosby family has lived in Georgetown since 2000, Mason’s mother runs a non-profit organization called The Locker, which allows students to meet the basic needs of their fellow students by providing things like toiletries and school supplies.
Mason Crosby is married to Molly Crosby (born Molly Christine Ackerman). The couple tied the knot on June 28, 2008.
Molly was born on October 6, 1984 in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. She was born to a very young girl who found her difficult to care for and so gave her up for adoption when she was only nine months old. Molly was later adopted and raised by Lillian Cheryl and Charles Dan Ackerman.
She attended Glenwood High School and later got admitted to the University of Colorado, where she met her now husband. While in college, she was a cheerleader while Mason was a soccer star.
Nearly two years after their marriage, the duo welcomed their first addition to the family, a son, Nolan James, who was born in August 2010. Their second child, Charlotte, was born in May 2013, while their third child (second daughter) was born in 2015.
