While the Detroit Lions aren't considered a top tier NFL franchise they have had some of the greatest NFL talent put on their jersey every Sunday and pull off some amazing feats. The most amazing Detroit Lions athlete ever to grace the football field has to be one, Barry Sanders. Standing at just 5'8, Sanders is one of the most elusive and creative running backs to ever play the game. If he was able to get to outside of the field, he was nearly impossible to catch. Breakaway speed and excellent field vision allowed him to become the Hall of Famer he is today.
During his tenure as a member of the Oklahoma State Cowboys he won the 1988 Heisman Trophy in his junior year racking up 2,850 yards and 42 touchdowns. His collegiate performance at Oklahoma State led him tobeing picked 3rd overall in the 1989 NFL Draft by the Detriot Lions where he would play all ten seasons of his NFL career (1989-1998). Sanders went on to be invited to the Pro Bowl every season he played (10x) and was named NFL MVP in 1997. Sanders currently holds the third place rushing yards record with 15,269 and is ranked tenth in rushing touchdowns with 99. Though he's had a Hall of Fame career, Barry Sanders is regarded as the best player ever to not have played in a Super Bowl.
In the US, the average spent on an engagement ring is $6,351 but how do these figures compare with our favorite celebrities? The answer: they don't. As the diamonds increase in size, obviously the price tag appreciates handsomely. Well, we've compiled a list of some of the most expensive celebrity engagement rings.
This list would be nothing without Kim Kardashian's rock from Kanye, which clocked in at around a cool $4 million when he presented it to her at his stadium proposal in October 2013. Unfortunately, though, the 15-carat sparkler was among the jewelry stolen during Kim's infamous Paris robbery in 2016.
Jennifer Lopez's husband Alex Rodriguez popped the question to the singer, and he really had to step it up to outshine her previous engagement rings—and wow, did he deliver. The baseball star proposed with a reported 15-20 carat emerald cut stunner set on a platinum band that was estimated at $5 million. It's getting harder and harder not to be fooled by the rocks she's got...
It should come as no surprise that Beyonce herself totes one of the world's highest-valued diamonds. Weighing in at 24 carats, Jay reportedly paid around $5 million (now worth $6,047,013) for Bey's flashy emerald-cut ring back in 2008.
Anna Kournikova's relationship Latin music artist Enrique Iglesias since the early '00s has been one of the most lowkey celebrity relationships to date. That is with the exception of her $5,400,000 engagement ring that made headlines in 2004. Now, worth a whopping $7,443,596, the giant yellow stunner was spotted on Kournikova even during her tennis matches. (Pssst! It's rumored she got two rings from Iglesias. Prior to this, she sported an equally giant pink pear-shaped ring.)
Clocking in as the most expensive celebrity engagement ring, Mariah Carey's 35-carat bling from ex-fiancé James Packer reportedly cost a cool $10 million. And the "Obsessed" singer seemed to be a bit, well, obsessed with the jewel. She continued to wear the ring over a year post-breakup, and didn't part ways with the bauble until May 2018, selling it to a Los Angeles jeweler for $2.1 million.