Quarterback Jaden Rashada’s lawsuit claiming University of Florida boosters and football coach Billy Napier reneged on a $13.8 million contract marks an inflection point amid the rapidly changing landscape of compensation in college athletics.
Rashada was promised a lucrative name-image-likeness (NIL) deal in 2022 to play for the Florida Gators instead of the University of Miami, which offered him a $9.5 million contract, according to his complaint. But payment from Florida never materialized after Rashada was recruited under that false financial promise, according to his complaint filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida.
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