FaZe president explains how esports players could earn \u201cNFL salaries\u201d FaZe Clan president Greg Selkoe opened up about why he believes esports players could eventually earn pay as high as NFL athletes in an interview with celebrity news website TMZ. TMZ Sports caught up with FaZe Selkoe for an interview on December 28, where he dived into a variety of topics, such as the future of esports eventually eating into the market share of traditional sports. However, the organization president explained how explosion in viewership numbers with games could eventually lead to esports players earning as much as NFL athletes. The future of esports players\u2019 salaries When asked about his thoughts on traditional sports leagues feeling threatened by esports taking a chunk of their market share, the 44-year-old expressed that he\u2019s not surprised that there\u2019s a cause for concern. \u201cThey must be somewhat concerned because a number of them investing in these closed leagues teams like in Overwatch and Call of Duty are actually sports franchises, so they must be seeing that as the future,\u201d he said. He then explained that the \u201cnumber of time spent by 14-20 year old males watching video games is getting close to surpassing regular sports,\u201d before he added that \u201cthe world is virtual.\u201d When asked if salaries in esports have surpassed the NFL, the FaZe president stated, \u201cNot yet. But there is different ways to make money. You get paid a salary in the NFL, and get endorsement deals. As an organization we go out and do a lot of that stuff for them.\u201d He explained how streamers also get paid when they practice unlike traditional sports: \u201cWe will have someone streaming on Twitch playing Fortnite for 14 hours straight, and that\u2019s them practicing.\u201d Selkoe then finished by saying that unlike other sports, fans get to interact with players. \u201cWe have hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people watching them play and interact. It\u2019s almost entertainment. It\u2019s pop culture and actual sports.\u201d (Timestamp 00:11 for mobile users.) Time will tell if his predictions come true, but the FaZe president made an interesting point about esports athletes constantly making money as their practice sessions are watched by viewers at home. 2019 alone has been a great year for streamers getting paid, as Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2018 Blevins and Michael \u2018shroud\u2018 Grzesiek were reportedly paid millions by Microsoft to stream exclusively with Mixer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FaZe president explains how esports players could earn \u201cNFL salaries\u201d FaZe Clan president Greg Selkoe opened up about why he believes esports players could eventually earn pay as high as NFL athletes in an interview with celebrity news website TMZ. TMZ Sports caught up with FaZe Selkoe for an interview on December 28, where he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}