Blake Martinez is making serious bucks off Pokémon cards
See where USA TODAY Sports feels these quarterbacks will land in the latest NFL mock draft.The NFL is a billion-dollar industry. But for some players, it's not worth pursuing a long career.at the age of 28, a month after signing with the Las Vegas Raiders. He dedicated himself full-time to his new business: trading Pokémon cards.
He founded Blake's Breaks in July after picking up the enterprise as a hobby when he tore his ACL in 2021. Since then, he has made $5 million, according to“Every single day when I wake up, my shoulder doesn’t hurt and my back doesn’t hurt anymore,” he said. “When all that hurts are my fingers from opening, like, 1,000 packs of cards per day, I think, ‘I’m going to keep doing this.’”
The Arizona native had his fair share of success on the field, tying for the NFL lead in tackles in 2017 with the Green Bay Packers. A fourth-round pick out of Stanford in 2016, Martinez spent four years in Green Bay before joining the Giants prior to the 2020 season. Martinez tore his ACL in 2021 and missed most of the year.
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