More than 10,000 have taken EA’s NIL offer for college football game — but not Arch Manning
Ezra Jorgensen | Mar 04, 2024
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EA has offered roughly 11,000 players $600 and a free copy of the upcoming college football video game. Whether that’s fair compensation for the rights to use their names, images, and likenesses, over 10,000 have accepted the terms.
Texas quarterback Arch Manning has not, according to Anwar Richardson of OrangeBloods.com.
The word given to Richardson is that the nephew of Peyton and Eli Manning “is focused on playing football on the field.”
That’s fine. But being in a video game doesn’t undermine that focus. If so, both of his uncles would have removed themselves from the various annual versions of Madden. Also, Peyton wouldn’t have agreed to be on the cover of NFL Fever, a 2002 offering from Xbox.
