College football recently underwent a seismic shift when it was allowed that players could financially profit from ‘NIL’—that is, their name, image, and likeness, which seems to be an expanding portfolio of possibilities with each passing year—or has it?
Flash back a decade ago when former Pittsburgh Steelers second-round tackle Mike Adams was suspended for five games at Ohio State during his senior year for bartering some merchandise in exchange for some tattoo work.
While the floodgates have opened to allow players to financially profit off their name exactly in the manner that their own schools do, everybody in the scouting world is still trying to figure out just how this is going to affect the evaluation process with players increasingly making use of the transfer portal to seek more lucrative opportunities, as Pittsburgh wide receiver Jordan Addison is apparently intending to do.