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Reggie Bush: Relaxed NIL rules would have been ‘life changing’ during his time at USC

Reggie Bush was a star among stars at USC.

It’s safe to say college for the Heisman Trophy-winning running back and several of his teammates would have been very different had the NCAA relaxed its rules on athletes benefiting from the use of their names, images and likenesses, a move the organization is expected to make in the near future.

“It wouldn’t have been just me,” Bush told the Athletic in an interview published Sunday. “We had [Matt] Leinart, LenDale [White] and so many great players on our team who were so big at the college level that probably could’ve made hundreds of thousands of dollars.