Allison Kuch Says Hierarchy Exists With NFL Wives Based on Salaries

TikTok star Allison Kuch has been across the NFL for seven years and has seen all of it in relation to the dynamics of wives and girlfriends.

“For wives, for positive, [there’s a hierarchy]. It has diversified crew to crew, however in the event you consider any group of 53 ladies in a room, you’re not gonna get together with each single considered one of them,” Kuch, 29, stated whereas showing on the Thursday, August 29, episode of “The Viall Recordsdata” podcast along with her husband, NFL free agent Isaac Rochell. “You’re gonna gravitate towards completely different ladies, no matter.”

She continued, “There have been groups that [Isaac] has performed for, the place ladies received’t provide the time of day except your husband has a sure contract dimension or if he’s a veteran.”

Rochell, 29, has performed for Los Angeles Chargers, Indianapolis Colts, Cleveland Browns and Las Vegas Raiders since being drafted to the league in 2017. He married Kuch, his faculty sweetheart, in 2021.

Kuch claimed she largely noticed drama amongst gamers’ companions “early on” in her husband’s profession and joked that her latest social media recognition hasn’t helped her acquire any favor.

“I can type of perceive since you’re dwelling on this place each single soccer season, like, you’re experiencing a really completely different NFL,” Kuch stated. “Like, we don’t have a lot in widespread. Whereas, me hanging out with the ladies who’re new to the crew or their husband was on observe squad final yr and now [is] on the 53-man roster, I really feel like you’ve extra in widespread.”

Rochell additional identified that there is usually a degree of “pettiness” between the wives, which typically extends to the husbands and might really feel “a bit excessive school-y.”

“I feel it exists with gamers, too. It’s not as unhealthy [and] I feel guys are chill,” he stated. “However there’s such a distinction in how a lot individuals make that it’s exhausting to not have that [be a thing]. Your teammate might be making 30 instances what you make.”

Rochell, who revealed his rookie contract with the Chargers was “seven grand for each two weeks,” admitted it’s tough to not let wage discrepancies bleed into teammates’ lives.

“If you happen to obtained a man who’s making $4 million a sport after which me — bear in mind [I made] $7,000 each two weeks — he doesn’t care about me. There’s no means,” Rochell quipped. “If he’s actually anxious about successful, he’s not anxious about Isaac on [the] observe squad [in] his rookie yr.”

Whereas rookie contract salaries have since elevated, Rochell remembered being handed his biweekly verify within the locker room subsequent to his teammates throughout his first yr within the NFL.

Rochell stated, “I bear in mind trying on the man subsequent to me. My verify was [$7,000] and his was [$120,000]. I’m like, ‘We simply did the identical 14-day interval [and] you didn’t do that rather more than me,’ as a result of he wasn’t enjoying.”

Rochell shouldn’t be at present signed for the 2024-2025 season however burdened that he’s “prepared” to affix a crew.

“Generally it simply takes longer,” he stated. “It’s tremendous irritating as a result of I see guys [and I can tell] this man won’t ever play … however they’re all the time betting on the following man.”

Kuch added that Rochell has been “figuring out each single day,” which incorporates carrying “20-pound weight” within the type of their daughter, Scottie Bee, 9 months.