Last updated: August 2026
| Net Worth | Not publicly disclosed — estimated in the $3 million-$5 million range |
| Born | April 1, 1999 |
| Profession | Professional Football Player (Linebacker, Indianapolis Colts) |
| Nationality | 🇺🇸 American |
Jacob Phillips is an American professional football linebacker who signed a reserve/future contract with the Indianapolis Colts in January 2025. A 2020 third-round pick out of LSU whose career has been repeatedly interrupted by injuries, his net worth is not publicly disclosed but is reasonably estimated in the low-to-mid millions based on his NFL contract history.
Early Life & Family
Phillips was born on April 1, 1999, in Nashville, Tennessee. He attended East Nashville Magnet High School, where he was named Tennessee’s Mr. Football as a senior in 2016 as a five-star recruit.
Rise to Fame
Phillips played linebacker at LSU from 2017 to 2019. He appeared in 12 games as a freshman, started 11 of 12 games as a sophomore with 87 tackles, and led the team in tackles as a junior in 2019, helping LSU win the College Football Playoff national championship that season before declaring for the NFL Draft.
Career History
The Cleveland Browns selected Phillips in the third round (97th overall) of the 2020 NFL Draft. His four seasons in Cleveland (2020-2023) were repeatedly disrupted by injury, including a biceps injury that ended his 2021 season and pectoral injuries in 2022 and again in the 2023 preseason that cost him the entire year; he finished his Browns tenure with 42 combined tackles and one sack across 13 games. The Houston Texans signed him to a one-year, $1.15 million deal in April 2024, but released him that August. He signed a reserve/future contract with the Indianapolis Colts in January 2025.
How They Built Their Wealth
Phillips’s earnings have come primarily from his four-year rookie-scale contract as a 2020 third-round pick, which included a signing bonus, followed by a one-year, $1.15 million deal with Houston in 2024 and a subsequent reserve/future contract with Indianapolis. His NFL career has been financially constrained by the injuries that limited his playing time in Cleveland.
Personal Life
Phillips’s NFL career has been defined by a run of significant injuries — a torn biceps, and pectoral injuries in consecutive years — that repeatedly cut short his seasons in Cleveland and disrupted the trajectory his college production at LSU had suggested.
Jacob Phillips’s net worth is not officially disclosed, but based on his rookie contract and subsequent NFL deals, it is reasonably estimated at $3 million to $5 million.