Houston Texans

Texans rookie safety stuck with $16k dinner bill

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 12:00 p.m. ET

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K.J. Dillon thought that he was a part of a team bonding dinner at an expensive restaurant.

Dillon and his teammates went out to for a meal and drinks, and knowing the size and taste of NFL players, the meal wound up running over $16,000. Much to the surprise of Dillon, when it came time to pay for the meal, it was up to him to figure it out.

The Houston Texans rookie fifth-round draft pick signed a four-year, $2.57 million deal after being drafted. He signed a $58,734 signing bonus this offseason, but this year is scheduled to make $374,288. Over a 16-game season that amounts to about $23, 393 per week. One could imagine how Dillon may have felt after his team stuck him with a dinner bill over $16,000, or at three-fourths of his earnings for that week.

Dillon tweeted, and later deleted a picture of the bill. Here is a screen shot, per CBS Sports.

What is crazier, that they ordered $7,700 worth of Hennessy, or that the creamed spinach at this restaurant costs $13.95 per serving?

Dillon mentioned that it was all love to between the rookie and his teammates, and added in another deleted tweet that the veterans take him out to eat at least once per week. However, after such an expensive meal out, Dillon showed his good spirits by tweeting that he is sticking to a sandwich for his next meal, and potentially his next couple of meals.

While hazing has been in the news recently and has been banned to some degrees in baseball, this is a good spirited financial haze, that Dillon clearly had no hard feelings over. He will surely be excited about next season, when he gets to look at the next fifth round draft picks face as he opens the bill and learns that it is all his.