If you own stock in wide receiver Mohamed Sanu, you'll soon be cashing in.
Fantex, the company that has divided its stake in the future earnings of athletes into individual tracking stocks as well as a more recent portfolio of such deals, announced Tuesday that it is paying out $2.74 million to shareholders in dividends.
Shareholders in Sanu will cash in the most, as his new five-year contract with the Falcons is to pay him $14 million guaranteed. Fantex purchased 10 percent of all of Sanu's future earnings, and 164,000 shares in Sanu began trading in November 2014 at $10 per share.
Sanu shareholders will get paid $3.50 per share, the highest dividend the company has ever paid out.
Fans who had shares of Vernon Davis stock will also be getting paid -- $1.50 per share. Since Davis shares started trading in 2014, Davis has yielded five dividends totaling $3 per share. Davis' new deal with the Washington Redskins guarantees him $1.35 million this season.
Shares in four other NFL players -- Alshon Jeffery, EJ Manuel, Jack Mewhort and Michael Brockers -- also will pay a dividend, the most being 61 cents a share for Brockers.