EA Offering College Athletes $600 To Appear In New Football Game
EA Sports is reviving its college football game series this year with EA Sports College Football 25, and now a major new detail about it has come to light. EA Sports confirmed to ESPN that it will offer athletes $600 for their name, image, and likeness (NIL) to appear in the game.Additionally, the terms of EA's NIL deal with athletes state that players can get a copy of the game on a platform of their choosing, and that EA could pay certain high-profile athletes to be ambassadors and promote the game to their social media audiences. ExtraPoints confirmed these details and that EA believes this NIL deal is the largest ever.The $600 offer will go out to the more than 11,000 FBS players, totaling more than $6 million if every player signs on. That is seemingly unlikely to happen, and it'll be interesting to see which players--high-profile or not--decide to opt out.Continue Reading at GameSpot
EA Sports is reviving its college football game series this year with EA Sports College Football 25, and now a major new detail about it has come to light. EA Sports confirmed to ESPN that it will offer athletes $600 for their name, image, and likeness (NIL) to appear in the game.
Additionally, the terms of EA's NIL deal with athletes state that players can get a copy of the game on a platform of their choosing, and that EA could pay certain high-profile athletes to be ambassadors and promote the game to their social media audiences. ExtraPoints confirmed these details and that EA believes this NIL deal is the largest ever.
The $600 offer will go out to the more than 11,000 FBS players, totaling more than $6 million if every player signs on. That is seemingly unlikely to happen, and it'll be interesting to see which players--high-profile or not--decide to opt out.
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