Nah, he actually made a lot of smart investments with his NFL money and is still doing very well financially. He's invested in alot of small films and documentaries. Supposed to have helped finance a film that's gonna be a 30 for 30 sometime later this year. Plus from what I was told his NFL pension is 300K a year. (NFL pensions are tax free too. )
I can't see how that pension part is true. Everything I've read says they aren't eligible to receive their pension until they're 55. Even with that, he played 8 seasons and you get ~500/month *the number of seasons you played, he'd only be able to get 4k/month.