When all else fails, follow the money.
Michael Oher claims the Tuohy family made millions off their conservatorship of him after the Hollywood blockbuster “The Blind Side,” but an examination of the former Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle’s career earnings puts this developing situation in a new light.
Oher signed a total of four contracts during his eight-year NFL career.
Spotrac and Over the Cap are a pair of leading websites which track salaries of individual athletes and payrolls of professional sports teams.
The two sites each added up Oher’s career earnings, and while their numbers are off slightly, they both concluded the former first-round draft pick made more than $34 million in the NFL.
Spotrac puts it at $34,506,875 while Over the Cap’s number is $34,170,000.
The Ravens selected Oher out of of Ole Miss with the No. 23 pick overall in the 2009 NFL Draft and signed him to a five-year rookie deal worth $13,495,000.
In 2014, Oher left Baltimore as a free agent and signed a four-year, $20 million contract with the Titans, but Tennessee released him after just one season.
In 2015, Oher signed a two-year, $7 million contract with the Panthers.
One year later, he signed a three-year, $21.6 million contract extension with Carolina.
But Oher played just three games for the Panthers in 2016, landing on injured reserve with a concussion.
Carolina released him ahead of training camp in 2017 after Oher failed his physical.
Why does all this matter?
Oher claims in the petition filed Monday Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy tricked him into signing over the legal authority to use his name in business deals after he turned 18 and proceeded to make millions in royalties from the Oscar-nominated film, “The Blind Side,” while he received nothing.
On Tuesday, the Tuohys said through their lawyers that Oher had threatened before filing the petition to plant a negative news story about them unless they paid him $15 million.
On Wednesday, word broke the family plans to end its conservatorship of Oher.
Attorneys for the Tuohys estimated that each family member, including Oher, received $100,000 as a result of the film, adding that the couple paid taxes on his portion for him.
“Michael got every dime, every dime he had coming,” Tuohy family lawyer Randall Fishman said.
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