Richest NFL Owners: All 32 Ranked by Net Worth

Rob Walton is the richest NFL owner. Forbes put the Denver Broncos owner’s net worth at $133.4 billion on 9 August 2026, more than five times the next name on the list. Behind him come the Hunt family of the Kansas City Chiefs at $24.8 billion, Stan Kroenke of the Los Angeles Rams at $24.3 billion and David Tepper of the Carolina Panthers at $23.7 billion. Jerry Jones sits fifth at $19 billion, but owns the single most valuable franchise in world sport.

Net worth figures below are Forbes real-time billionaires estimates as of 9 August 2026 unless a different date is stated. Franchise valuations are from the Forbes NFL list published on 28 August 2025, the most recent full ranking.

The richest NFL owners, ranked

#	Owner or group	Team	Net worth	Acquired	Price paid	Franchise value
1	Rob Walton & family	Denver Broncos	$133.4B	2022	$4.65B	$6.8B
2	Hunt family	Kansas City Chiefs	$24.8B	1960	$25,000 AFL fee	$6.2B
3	Stan Kroenke	Los Angeles Rams	$24.3B	2010	~$750M franchise value	$10.5B
4	David Tepper	Carolina Panthers	$23.7B	2018	$2.275B	$5.7B
5	Jerry Jones & family	Dallas Cowboys	$19.0B	1989	$140M	$13.0B
6	Stephen Ross	Miami Dolphins	$17.0B	2008-09	~$1.1B	$7.5B
7	Shahid Khan	Jacksonville Jaguars	$15.1B	2012	$770M	$5.6B
8	Robert Kraft	New England Patriots	$13.8B	1994	$172M	$9.0B
9	Glazer family	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	$12.1B	1995	$192M	$6.6B
10	Arthur Blank	Atlanta Falcons	$10.8B	2002	$545M	$6.35B
11	Josh Harris	Washington Commanders	$10.7B	2023	$6.05B	$7.6B
12	Jimmy & Dee Haslam	Cleveland Browns	$10.3B	2012	$987M	$6.4B
13	Terry & Kim Pegula	Buffalo Bills	$9.3B	2014	$1.4B	$5.95B
14	Denise DeBartolo York & family	San Francisco 49ers	$8.5B	1977	$13M	$8.6B
15	Steve Bisciotti	Baltimore Ravens	$8.4B	2000 & 2004	$600M in two stages	$6.1B
16	Gayle Benson	New Orleans Saints	$7.9B	1985	$70M	$5.3B
17	Jeffrey Lurie	Philadelphia Eagles	$7.6B	1994	$185M	$8.3B
18	McNair family	Houston Texans	$7.3B	1999	$700M expansion fee	$7.4B
19	Woody Johnson	New York Jets	$3.5B	2000	$635M	$8.1B
20	Amy Adams Strunk	Tennessee Titans	$2.8B	1959	$25,000 AFL fee	$6.3B

Glazer family figure as of 29 June 2026; McNair family figure as of 10 March 2026, shortly before Janice McNair’s death in July 2026. Her son Cal McNair became the Texans’ principal owner in 2024.

The franchises Forbes does not rank individually

Twelve clubs are held by families or, in one case, the public. Forbes publishes franchise values for all of them but no current individual net worth for the controlling owner, so ranking them alongside the names above would mean inventing numbers. They are listed here by franchise value instead.

Team	Controlling owner or group	Acquired	Price paid	Franchise value
New York Giants	Mara family; Tisch family	1925; 50% in 1991	$500	$10.1B
Chicago Bears	McCaskey family (George Halas)	1920	$100 franchise fee	$8.2B
Las Vegas Raiders	Mark Davis / Davis family	1966, control from 1972	$18,500 for 10%	$7.7B
Seattle Seahawks	Paul G. Allen Estate	1997	$194M	$6.7B
Green Bay Packers	500,000+ public shareholders	1923	Non-profit, no owner	$6.65B
Pittsburgh Steelers	Rooney family	1933	$2,500	$6.5B
Minnesota Vikings	Wilf family	2005	$600M	$6.25B
Los Angeles Chargers	Spanos family	1984	$48.3M for 60%	$6.0B
Indianapolis Colts	Irsay family	1972	Franchise swap	$5.9B
Arizona Cardinals	Bidwill family	1932	$50,000	$5.5B
Detroit Lions	Ford family	1963	$4.5M	$5.4B
Cincinnati Bengals	Brown family	1967	$7.5M expansion fee	$5.25B

The Seahawks will not stay on that list. In 2026 the Paul G. Allen Estate agreed to sell the club to a group led by venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, his wife Neeru and son Neal for a reported $9.612 billion, an NFL record and a figure that would place Khosla, worth $13.8 billion on 9 August 2026, inside the top ten above. The sale requires approval from three-quarters of the league’s owners. Paul Allen’s will directed that his sports assets be sold and the proceeds given to charity, so his sister Jody, who has chaired the club since his death in 2018, does not profit from the sale.

Which NFL owners made the biggest return?

The families who bought in before the Second World War, by an order of magnitude nobody since can match. The Bidwills paid $50,000 for the Chicago Cardinals in 1932 and hold a franchise Forbes values at $5.5 billion. The Rooneys paid $2,500 in 1933 for a club now worth $6.5 billion, a return of roughly 2.6 million times.

Among modern buyers the standout is Jerry Jones. He paid $140 million for the Cowboys and Texas Stadium in 1989, and Forbes valued the franchise at $13 billion in 2025, about 93 times his money before accounting for four decades of operating profit and the separate revenue from AT&T Stadium. The full story of that deal is in our guide to who owns the Dallas Cowboys.

Robert Kraft is close behind on multiple. He bought the Patriots for $172 million in 1994 when the club was close to relocating, and the franchise is now valued at $9 billion, roughly 52 times the purchase price plus six Super Bowl titles.

How much is every NFL team worth?

All 32 clubs were valued at $5 billion or more for the first time in the Forbes list published on 28 August 2025, with an average of $7.1 billion, up about 25% year on year. The Buffalo Bills posted the biggest jump at 42%, followed by the Rams and Giants at 38% each.

The valuations bear little relation to on-field success. The Cowboys have not reached a conference championship game since the 1995 season and are worth $13 billion. The Kansas City Chiefs, the dominant team of the past decade, sit 22nd at $6.2 billion. What drives the numbers is market size, stadium revenue and the national media deals that are split 32 ways, which is why a new venue moves a valuation more than a playoff run does. The biggest of those venues are covered in our guide to the largest NFL stadiums.

What are the NFL’s ownership rules?

A controlling owner must personally hold at least 30% of the franchise, and any sale must be approved by three-quarters of the other owners. That 30% floor is the reason NFL clubs are owned by individuals and families rather than corporations or consortiums, and it is why the entry price is measured in billions of personal wealth rather than fund capital.

The league loosened one rule in August 2024, voting to allow approved private equity funds to take passive stakes of up to 10%. No fund can control a team, sit on the board or influence football operations. Public ownership remains banned outright for any franchise other than Green Bay, which was grandfathered when the rule came in.

Who actually owns the Green Bay Packers?

More than 500,000 shareholders, none of whom owns the team in any meaningful sense. Green Bay Packers, Inc. is a non-profit corporation formed in 1923, and its shares pay no dividend, cannot be resold at a profit and grant nothing but voting rights and a certificate.

It is the only publicly held club in American major league sport, and Forbes still assigns it a $6.65 billion value for comparison even though no one can buy it. For more on how sport’s biggest assets are held, see our ownership guides.