NFL Player Devon Kennard Shares Winning Strategies for Managing Money
edition 5–6 • September 2017 • vol. 4 • no. 1 Made possible by the PwC Charitable Foundation FINANCIAL LITERACY FOR KIDS NFL player Devon Kennard shares winning strategies for managing money. timeforkids.com pick youR SpluRgeS fully educated about his choices. Now, four years “You can’t be a car person, a house person, into his NFL career, he’s starting to look at real a jewelry person, a person who wants to estate investments. Still, he says: “If someone can’t travel, and a person who wants to take explain to me how the process is going to work and care of your family,” Kennard says. “You what my money will be doing, it’s not something I have to decide the things that are important want to invest in.” to you. Then you have to give the others up.” He says his family didn’t need his help, and alwayS look ahead The National Football League helps he’s not a “car person or jewelry person,” but In seventh grade, Kennard wrote that players learn how to manage money. he did want to travel. By minimizing other his dream was to go to the University of New York Giants linebacker Devon expenses, he’s been able to visit Costa Rica, Southern California, get his undergraduate POWER RUN Devon Kennard shares some pro tips. Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, the Bahamas, and the and master’s degrees, and play in the NFL. He Kennard, New York Giants linebacker, Dominican Republic. did them all. Now he’s focused on figuring during the 2017 Last May, New York Giants linebacker Devon out life after football.
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