Matt Ryan is a proven team leader and postseason quarterback, he just hasn't been able to secure a Super Bowl victory for the Atlanta Falcons. And while the team is currently in a state of turmoil, Ryan has kept a positive outlook and uplifted the group of guys around him. Ryan also did the same during his days as a member of the Boston College Eagles. From 2004-2007, Matt Ryan put up an impressive 9,313 yards through the air for 56 touchdowns. Ryan won the Manning Award his senior year (2007) and was also named MVP of the 2005 MPC Computers Bowl.
Matt Ryan was drafted 3rd overall in the 2008 NFL Draft by the Atlanta Falcons where he's played his entire twelve-season career. The same year he was drafted he was named the Offensive Rookie of the Year, won NFL MVP honors in 2016, and has been invited to the Pro Bowl a total of four times. During the 2016 season, he led the Falcons to Super Bowl LI but failed to secure the Lombardi Trophy against the New England Patriots. In 2013, Ryan signed a five-year contract extension worth $103.7 million and signed an additional five-year extension in 2018 worth, $150 million. Matt Ryan's 2018 contract was the largest in NFL history until Aaron Rodgers mega-contract a few months later.
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.