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Breaking Former Georgia Bulldogs QB Gunner Stockton Fully Welcome back and Crown as……

Breaking Former Georgia Bulldogs QB Gunner Stockton Fully Welcome back and Crown as……

If it’s true that former Georgia quarterback Carson Beck will receive $4 million in NIL money to play for the University of Miami in 2025, numbers like that will get more and more high-end college football players to do what the NFL has encouraged them to do (possibly as a favor to its free farm system) for years.

Even though it’s clearly not school. As if it has been, for years. It’s business. And it had been business for everyone but the people who fueled it. Not long ago, everyone associated with the presentation of a college football game, from the school president all the way down to the guy selling stale popcorn, was getting paid — except the players.

Now, the curtain has fallen. The façade has been obliterated. College football is professional football. And the profession of college football is paying a lot better than the early years of most rookie contracts will pay.

For 2024 first-round draft picks, only the top 16 players taken received four-year contracts worth more than $4 million per year.

And so, by sticking around college football for another year or two, a player whose draft stock might not (or ever be) quite that high can pocket plenty of cash, while continuing to get playing experience, before heading to the NFL.

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