Does he have to wait until a certain age before he can draw that money?
I don’t know, to be honest. I do know that a player is fully vested after 3 years in the league, and also that there is an option to take a lump sum at age 45 instead of the monthly payment. My *guess* would be that players taking the monthly payments would get them upon retirement from the league regardless of age. But that is only a guess.