These guys took advantage of NIL deals this season 🤑📈

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— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) February 13, 2024

Don't you think that the NFL and NBA have to be concerned about this? You've got some guys making more by staying in college for their, what seems like, 12 years of eligibility . Ultimately this will probably drive up minimums in both leagues.

I am not sure it is accurate to say players will make more in college. And if they do, it will be rare and really just builds their brand which ultimately helps the NFL or NBA when they enter it. Those kids will mostly not be great players, but bring eyeballs by their popularity.

Sanders, Manning and Bronny James are oddballs in that camp and they already have a valuable brand (due to dad) that exceed their accomplishments. In Manning and James's case, far exceeds it.

If you look at NIL for basketball, highest NIL after Bronny is $1m (Jared McCain at Duke). League minimum is $1.1m and those guys ain't getting league minimum when they start playing.

WA Jim said:

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Don't you think that the NFL and NBA have to be concerned about this? You've got some guys making more by staying in college for their, what seems like, 12 years of eligibility . Ultimately this will probably drive up minimums in both leagues.

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Bryce Young's cap hit was $7 million this year. No first-round talent is making anywhere close to NFL numbers in college.

There will always be a couple inflated NIL deals in relation to their NFL stock because donors get desperate or whatever. But generally speaking, at least for now, NIL money isn't keeping elite talent in college any more than the past.

WA Jim said:

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Don't you think that the NFL and NBA have to be concerned about this? You've got some guys making more by staying in college for their, what seems like, 12 years of eligibility . Ultimately this will probably drive up minimums in both leagues.

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I don't share your concern. First, some NIL deals can travel with the player. Second, NBA/NFL money (for men) and (lifestyle/championships) are greater at the next level.

Remember, college doesn't have a superbowl.

For women? That's a problem.

Unreal. So UT pays Manning $2.8mm per year to sit on the sideline? Colorado paid that amount for 2 players that got them to what, 4 wins?

Ghostrider said:

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Unreal. So UT pays Manning $2.8mm per year to sit on the sideline? Colorado paid that amount for 2 players that got them to what, 4 wins?

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Technically not the school paying it but boosters or companies who pay for the player to do an endorsement, commercial, appearance, etc.

i wonder if some high earning but eventually borderline NFL prospects shrug off the league?

why grind your way into the league if you already made millions in nil?

OnIt has added new Baylor NIL products, including trading cards and wall clings. All participating SAs earn royalties, and OnIt offers autograph compensation to select athletes.

Here’s @rayjdennis10 signing this morning. #SicEm

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— David Kaye (@DavidKaye9) February 14, 2024

Look what Brock Purdy makes as a 7th round draft pick. Shedeur earns more. If Shedeur ends up being a late round pick who hops around on practice squads for 5 years then he will have made more in college than the NFL. If he's a 1st round pick then yes he will make more in the pros, but there's only 96 day 1 and 2 picks (rounds 1-3)

None of the two teams that made the final appear on this top 10

boykin_spaniel said:

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Look what Brock Purdy makes as a 7th round draft pick. Shedeur earns more. If Shedeur ends up being a late round pick who hops around on practice squads for 5 years then he will have made more in college than the NFL. If he's a 1st round pick then yes he will make more in the pros, but there's only 96 day 1 and 2 picks (rounds 1-3)

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True but he is an outlier to this discussion.

The majority of guys 5th round and below make a team as a third string guy and then bounce around on practice squads or just bounce around on practice squads and don't stay in the league for long or never make the team at all.

boognish_bear said:

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OnIt has added new Baylor NIL products, including trading cards and wall clings. All participating SAs earn royalties, and OnIt offers autograph compensation to select athletes.

Here’s @rayjdennis10 signing this morning. #SicEm

🔗: https://t.co/ObJRxVgl5O pic.twitter.com/GgHB7DB09j

— David Kaye (@DavidKaye9) February 14, 2024

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Thanks for posting this, Boognish. I looked these up.



So for $24.99, you can have Langston Love (as one example) on your wall at home, without ever going to the Pavilion.

boykin_spaniel said:

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Look what Brock Purdy makes as a 7th round draft pick. Shedeur earns more. If Shedeur ends up being a late round pick who hops around on practice squads for 5 years then he will have made more in college than the NFL. If he's a 1st round pick then yes he will make more in the pros, but there's only 96 day 1 and 2 picks (rounds 1-3)

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Will his dad be the head coach?

Puka Nacua? Plenty of examples of later round picks with success before NIL. Those guys will make less than a college star at a big school moving forward in the current NIL iteration and NFL draft salary slot. Guys like Christian Hackenburg, Bryce Petty, Scott Frost, Tommy Frazier, Lache Seastrunk (any Briles era skill player outside Kendall Wright and Cory Coleman) would make more than a late round pick unless they perform above projections like TB12, Dak, etc.

Oklahoma State head coach Mike Boynton on the state of recruiting & NIL
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— The Field of 68 (@TheFieldOf68) February 16, 2024

boykin_spaniel said:

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Puka Nacua? Plenty of examples of later round picks with success before NIL. Those guys will make less than a college star at a big school moving forward in the current NIL iteration and NFL draft salary slot. Guys like Christian Hackenburg, Bryce Petty, Scott Frost, Tommy Frazier, Lache Seastrunk (any Briles era skill player outside Kendall Wright and Cory Coleman) would make more than a late round pick unless they perform above projections like TB12, Dak, etc.

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Yes there are examples. But the facts show that being a late round draft pick is not good for your chances to make a roster or stay long term.

Basically there is only about a 30% chance those guys make a roster. Which means most never do.

And when you look at the last few 7th rounds and who is taken there are few big names there. Most are from smaller schools. The rookie minimum is $750,000 per year. I doubt most of the 7th rounders last year or this coming year are making that in NIL.