Ryan Broyles

You have plenty of time to waste..

Take a breath..

Broyles Real Estate Group
Infinite Rentals Property Management
Oklahoma Alumni - NFL Vet Lions

[Ryan Broyles @RyanBroyles]

Good decisions are compounding!

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

When the Detroit Lions drafted Ryan Broyles in the second round in 2012, he signed a contract worth more than $3.6 million, with over $1.4 million guaranteed and a signing bonus north of a million on top of it. He'd left Oklahoma as the all-time leading receiver in the history of major college football.

For a lot of young players, that's the moment the spending starts. The cars, the jewelry, the house that's twice as big as anyone needs.

Broyles did the opposite. He decided to live like he was broke.

He'd read the statistics that haunt every locker room, the ones about NFL players who earn millions and end up bankrupt within a few years of their last game. He didn't want to be a cautionary tale. So he sat down with a financial adviser and got a piece of advice that reshaped how he saw his money: figure out what you actually need, set a budget, live inside it, and invest the rest.

He and his wife Mary Beth spent a few months tracking exactly what a comfortable life cost them. The number they landed on was about $60,000 a year. Everything above that, the overwhelming majority of his NFL income, went straight into savings and investments.

"When I come to work, I don't think about the money," Broyles said during his career. "My wife has no worries. My child has no worries. I got the mindset of a businessman off the field."

A college mentor had once talked to him about where to put money if he ever made it big, and one idea stuck: real estate. So that's where he went. His first rental property came in 2012, in Tulsa. Then another. Then another. He'd find them, buy them, and manage them, sometimes closing deals over the phone. He described it almost like an addiction, the constant urge to do one more.

His NFL career, meanwhile, never got off the ground. Injuries wrecked all three of his seasons in Detroit, and the Lions released him during the 2015 preseason. He spent a year training and waiting for a call that never came, then walked away rather than hang on just to hang on.

Here's the difference. When football ended for Ryan Broyles, it wasn't a crisis. It was a transition he'd been preparing for the entire time.

Today he runs a company managing around 40 rental properties. He invested in a restaurant overlooking the University of Oklahoma campus where he became a legend, and he doesn't just cut checks, he shows up in work clothes and demos tile and installs toilets alongside his crews. One of his business partners called him "a Renaissance man."

Most players spend their careers praying the money lasts. Ryan Broyles guaranteed it, by spending years pretending he barely had any.

[Ryan Broyles @RyanBroyles]

@OUSoonersOU @SoonersInsider Sure hard to go much lower than 120th in the country on offense.

[Sooners Insider @SoonersInsider]

26 touchdowns and 1 interception..

[Ryan Broyles @RyanBroyles]

@XxEdWunclerxX @souljaboy But voting does?

[Ryan Broyles @RyanBroyles]

@sneako We like to fake care.

[Ryan Broyles @RyanBroyles]

@feraljokes I guess things aren’t that bad after all.

[Ryan Broyles @RyanBroyles]

@kellenmccoy33 Good times bro!

[Ryan Broyles @RyanBroyles]

@CoachBobStoops Coach, thanks for the confidence in me over those years!

[The REF @KREFsports]

15 years ago today:

There’s breaking a record and then there’s breaking an all-time record in style.

Ryan Broyles broke the FBS career receptions mark with a 57-yard touchdown catch at Kansas in 2011.

Broyles finished his OU career with 349 receptions for 4,586 yards and 45 TD’s.

LEGEND 🫡 @RyanBroyles

[Red Dirt Media @RedDirtMediaCo]

OU’s all-time receptions leader! ☝️

@RyanBroyles was a walking highlight reel, earning the 22nd-greatest season by a WR ever. One of the most productive receivers to ever wear the crimson and cream! 🏈

[Ryan Broyles @RyanBroyles]

@LeahB243 @RedDirtMediaCo @CollegeSportsCo @cassafrass11 🙏🙏

[Ryan Broyles @RyanBroyles]

@RedDirtMediaCo @CollegeSportsCo Good times!

[Ryan Broyles @RyanBroyles]

@JRsBBQ Keep going! The world needs you!

[Ryan Broyles @RyanBroyles]

@GregBerge There you go!

[Ryan Broyles @RyanBroyles]

@GregBerge You are aging yourself..

[Ryan Broyles @RyanBroyles]

@CurryHicksSage Worry about yourself.

[Ryan Broyles @RyanBroyles]

@JohnBolaris Don’t be so soft. Or this is click bait.

[Ryan Broyles @RyanBroyles]

@MBrooks02 Show up and show out!

[Mike Brooks @MBrooks02]

RYAN BROYLES — HE WAS A BALLER!

How remarkable was Ryan Broyles during his Oklahoma career?

2008–2011 | 48 Games
Career All-Purpose Yardage

2008 — 936 yards | 13 games | 72.0 YPG
2009 — 1,776 yards | 12 games | 148.0 YPG
2010 — 1,922 yards | 14 games | 137.3 YPG
2011 — 1,356 yards | 9 games | 150.7 YPG

CAREER TOTAL: 5,990 YARDS
An extraordinary 124.8 All-Purpose Yards PER GAME!

And here’s where the numbers become even more impressive.
Of his 48 career games:
• 25 games — 100–199 yards
• 4 games — 200–299 yards
• 2 games — 300+ yards

That’s 31 of 48 games (64.6%) with at least 100 all-purpose yards!
Broyles scored 48 career touchdowns.

Only DeMarco Murray (6,718 yards) accumulated more career all-purpose yards at Oklahoma.
And remember, Ryan’s senior season ended after just nine games because of an injury against Texas A&M.

At the time, he was averaging a career-best 150.7 all-purpose yards per game.

And there’s one other number I wouldn’t overlook: 5,054 all-purpose yards over his final 35 games—144.4 yards per game.

Greatness isn’t measured by one spectacular Saturday.
It’s measured by what you do Saturday after Saturday.

Ryan Broyles did it for FOUR SEASONS!

#OUDNA #BoomerSooner

[Ryan Broyles @RyanBroyles]

@michaelhayes813 @MBrooks02 Love you too bro!