USC’s top 2023 football recruit, Malachi Nelson, announces his first NIL deal

When Malachi Nelson committed last November, the five-star 2023 quarterback from Los Alamitos says he hadn’t had a single conversation with USC about its approach to name, image and likeness.

“I know there are a lot of schools out there where that’s the first thing they’ll talk about,” Nelson told The Times recently. “’We’ll give you this much, we’ll do this, whatever, just to get you here.’”