- Whose money is this?
I just got here, it's not mine. [chuckles]
[upbeat music]
What's up, GQ?
It's Dwayne Haskins,
and this is how I spent my first million.
As a kid I always said
I was gonna play in the NFL,
and everybody thought I was crazy.
When you playing, and play college football,
especially if you're pretty good at what you do,
you wanna play in the NFL.
So, of course throughout the season
everyone was like,
"Man, what you finna buy?
"If I got this, I would get this, I would get that."
And I'm like, "Man, I gotta focus on getting there first."
I gotta play well, so.
With all the working,
I knew I was gonna be able to do it
with hard work and perseverance,
and I made it.
I never really had a job growing up.
I might have worked like some football camps,
if that counts,
it was like a summer camp or something like that.
But I never had to work or clock in nine to five.
None of that.
- [Interviewer] So if we look at your resume,
first job ever is NFL quarterback.
- That's pretty cool, right? [laughs]
Yeah, that would be my first real job.
[upbeat music]
When I got drafted I was actually at home
at a bowling alley in Maryland,
and I went to high school in the area.
And the owner's son actually goes to my high school.
So, it's crazy, I always used to go to Redskin
games growing up.
Just to be able to be drafted by the hometown team
and knowing I'll be able to take care of myself,
and not have to worry about making ends meet.
Being in school I didn't have any debt,
so, everything was already paid for, my apartment.
The only thing I had to pay for in college was my car bill.
Might have had like maybe a couple of bills for the library
but I had to pay that off.
[chuckles]
- [Interviewer] Overdue books.
- Yeah, that's about it.
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The first thing I asked my agent like,
"I'm drafting now so when do I get paid?"
When I got my first signing bonus
I put about 70% of it away.
30% of it I put it in a different account.
And I bought some stuff as well
so we'll get into that too. [chuckles]
So before we talk about my first million,
it's very important that you save your money.
But now that I made the money,
I'm like bro, there's taxes,
so like I'm thinking I'm getting
all this money and half of it is going to taxes.
You got your agent fees,
you got all this stuff you gotta pay for.
I have financial advisor, so.
Talking about finances,
savings, having them in different buckets, he calls it.
As far as spending money,
having saving money,
having money put away for long term.
I have like three different bank accounts.
Make sure you be smart with your money
because at the end of the day you don't make that money
everyday the rest your of life.
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The first thing I bought after I saved my money,
make sure you save your chicken.
I got myself a car
and my mom a house.
I got myself a Bentley Bentayga.
It's a very nice car.
Got it custom matte black, red interior.
It's my baby, called the bat mobile, my favorite car.
And you can see that car right here.
And the interior right here. [laughs]
That car, $250,000.
[laughs]
I'm not buying no more cars.
Not a very great investment to buy a car
as they depreciate with value.
If you wanna buy a car,
make sure you're comfortable with what you buying.
- [Interviewer)] What was your mom's reaction like?
And how did you give her the house?
- I guess it was like the mortgage papers.
She has to sign on it too
'cause of course she's living there.
Being able to just, "Hey, mom, got a surprise for you.
"Here's a house."
[chuckles]
But she was so excited and being able
to move to somewhere were she would be comfortable.
Gave me a really big hug.
And definitely made those 14 plus years
of hard work worth it.
Always wanted my mom a house, that's like something
a lot of athletes wanna do for their mom.
You know, my mom sacrificed a lot for me growing up.
And being able to take care of her
is something that was really important for me.
- [Interviewer] How much was the house
that you bought your mom?
- There's not enough on the table.
That would be the rest of all this money, so 750.
My mom's house was 750,000 but that wasn't spent for me.
So I'm not gonna count that.
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I always wanted to go out the country.
I have not gone yet.
Declaring from the draft right from college,
this training and then hopping right into the NFL season,
there's like literally no time to go anywhere.
I'm going to Bahamas soon.
Trip coming up next month.
I like to shop smart.
So I got the flights in advance.
So they weren't more than like $800
and then hotel was like 3,000 for a couple days.
- [Interviewer] So let's budget 10,000 for the vacation?
- Yeah.
Maybe like five or seven, around there.
Finance guy's watching so I'm being smart and stuff.
10 bands, vacation money.
♪ Woo ♪
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I bought some jewelry.
I got some on right now, shout out to gave.
I always rock earrings.
I didn't get my ears pierced
till I was like in junior high school.
Me and my dad got our ears pierced together, actually.
So it was pretty ironic.
I got me one or two watches.
Something I got on right now.
Patek Philippe.
I bought it bust down already.
This is like a chandelier.
This watch could be worth over 100,000.
I did not pay that much for this watch though.
I gotta pull up my receipts.
Say like 60K for the Patek.
- [Interviewer] What about the chain?
How much was the chain?
[exhales]
Another 10.
Chain.
You gotta be drippy.
So I got a couple of nice clothes.
My dad always says I get my fashion sense from him.
He used to model and all that stuff like that.
So, I always kinda knew how to dress,
I just didn't have the money to buy the expensive things.
So of course, when I got to the league,
I was training in LA,
so Rodeo Drive is like one of those places you hear.
Met a whole bunch of fashion people out here.
I mean I got a personal shopper now.
And I don't go to the mall anymore.
Having somebody I could just text, and like,
"I wanna get this shirt."
I saw this shirt here and be able to buy it for me.
Shout out to Joey Dubs.
I gotta buy suits,
suits was something I had to buy for this season
being a quarterback.
Bought like four or five suits.
Tailor made, 10.
If I had to say clothes and everything like that,
first year, like 40,000.
In there.
If I had to take myself out of the best style
for the Washington Redskins,
I give Landon, Landon Collins, he's up there.
My man, Jimmy Moreland, is up there.
Steven Sims.
Dunny, Q. Dunny's up there.
And Cro.
And I mean, Rodgers-Cromartie
is like my top five for drip on the team.
[upbeat music]
I got a funny story.
So, I'm training in LA,
I'm working out with Deshaun Watson and a few other friends
like DeShone Kizer and Manny Wilkins,
and with my quarterback coach, Quincy Avery.
And we're playing a game.
And we're like whoever loses has to buy dinner tonight.
So unfortunately, I lose, right.
We go to some restaurant
and they run the tab up on me crazy.
First of all, it's supposed to be just us four.
They invited friends, family, cousins.
It was like almost 15, 20 people at the table.
I'm like, "There's no way I'm paying for all this food."
It was like almost $10,000.
I was pissed.
So, I never bet with them no more.
Oh, okay.
Another thing happened.
Rookie dinner, it's like a real thing in the NFL.
Offered to lineman and took them out to eat,
and of course they ordered all the appetizers,
all the steaks they can get.
They do not want to go out to Applebees.
They wanna go the best steak place that they can find.
That was a expensive bill too.
That's something you wanna do, take care of your lineman.
They block for you, take care of you, keep you off dirt.
You know, I'll do it again if I have to.
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Shout out to Corey.
I have a whole bunch of like murals,
and motivational things, I got a white room.
I have like five, six different paintings.
Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson.
I just got a Kobe mural.
I got a whole poker table
of my favorite rappers with "Scarface."
It's like Jay-Z, Nipsey, J. Cole, Biggie, Tupac.
It's a dope piece.
He didn't charge me that much.
So I probably say another 10.
A quarter to paint my basement.
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Being in the NFL, of course we have family members
that you wanna look after.
Couple friends that you grew up with.
Biggest thing I learned is how to say no.
'Cause people will ask for a lot if you let them.
I take care of my sister,
I helped her go to school.
You know, stuff like that,
something that I felt like was important
for somebody to move forward with their life,
I'll help them with.
She got a scholarship to SCAD.
Savannah College of Art Design.
She is a actress and she is majoring in communications.
She wants to produce movies, make movies, be in movies.
My dad always says she's more talented than me
at what she does than what I do.
But, that's up for debate.
Hand me 50.
The green money stack.
Going to my sister.
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- [Interviewer] If you have an away game in New York,
do you get taxed from the state of New York?
- I tried to tell you taxes are no joke, bro.
So you'll get tax where you play.
You get taxed when you play at your home stadium.
So, if you play in LA, you're getting LA taxes.
If you play in New York, you're paying New York taxes.
For that game that you're playing.
It's ridiculous but [chuckles],
yeah, it is what it is.
Let's push all this money in for taxes.
Ouch!
It hurts.
This is all taxes.
Here's my first million.
That felt pretty good.
Something I always dreamed of as a kid.
Car, and watch, and get my mom a house and stuff.
But it goes pretty fast.
You think you got everything in the world
once you get drafted, and then you look at your check,
and like it's a lot of money,
but it can go if you don't spend it the right way.
That's it, guys, that's how I spent my first million.
Catch me at FedExField next year.
Go Skins, ATTR.
I'm out, later.