NFL players can now return to college for a 5th year of eligibility.

I guess the redshirt tag will be a thing of the past as all college players can now play 5 years in college. I wonder how many Steelers in camp are now eligible to return to college and sign a new multi-million dollar NIL deal to play another season?

$8,000 a week on a practice squad, or $5 million to return to college for another year???


Here's Why These Signed NFL Players Could Return To College Football | FOX Sports

Several athletes, including some who signed contracts with NFL teams, were granted a temporary restraining order by a Louisiana court that would make them eligible to return to college athletics, ESPN reported Wednesday.

On July 31, a federal court in Denver ruled that all high school class of 2022 athletes who exhausted their fourth season of college eligibility this spring are eligible for a fifth season this academic year.

 

I'm sure most want to do it to further their education.

Been saying it for awhile, money ruining sports.

 

I thought it was funnier than hell when I read the 1st team to have one of their players return to college was the BROWNS.

 

The Big 10 and SEC have taken hard stances about member schools putting a player in their rosters who previously signed a pro contract. The penalties in the SEC are very harsh. Of course it would probably result in a lawsuit and who knows what kind of injunctions and stays these regional and state judges might make. Just one more f**ked up consequence of NIL and the portal. College athletics are a joke.

 

College football
Is no longer college football
Just football
Hard to get excited about it now

 

College basketball is even worse. The majority of the roster is turning over every year. TN basketball lost 11 players after last season. Including 7 who went in the portal. We were left with 2 scholarship players. They added 9 players in the portal and are spending $20M plus. Crazy times!