College football players are gonna get paid to be in
the new E A sports college football 25 video game
, but check this out, they're probably gonna get
less than the student athletes who initially sued to shut
down the game. Let's break this down. So
on Thursday E A sports announced that all 134 F
BS schools will be available in the new video game
, college football. 25. That means that more
than 11,000 players have the chance to be included in
the game with the opt in window beginning on Thursday
, one E A spokesperson told ESPN that any student
athletes who approve their name, image and likeness for
the game will receive$600 in a copy of the
game. Athletes who opt in would remain in the
game for their entire careers, but they can opt
out of future editions. Sounds ok to you guys
. Right. No, here's the problem that$600
is less than the average payout for players during the
E A lawsuit when the lawsuit was finalized to a
$40 million settlement. The estimated 100,000 athletes in the
suit received an average payout of$1000 for one year's
participation in the franchise. I personally got around 200
to$2500. So back in June of 2023 on
three reported that players should boycott the deal for the
game because the payout at the time of the story
was reported was allegedly down to$500 and didn't even
include a copy of the game. The vice president
of college football Players Association encouraged the boycott because NFL
payments for EAS Madden franchise are in the tens of
thousands with some deals even including royalties on the game
. So we wanna get you guys opinion. Do
you think that$600 and a copy of the game
is a fair compensation to a college football player for
E A sports to use their name image and likeness
. Hit the comments section below.