Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Bruce Feldman, joined as always by my colleague from the Athletic Stuart Mandel.

Stu, we got a lot to talk about.

We're going to also get into Alabama and their spring.

It's interesting, even if it wasn't on ESPN, like their spring game always is. It wasn't this year,

but we're going to have our friend Aaron Suttles on to fill us in on what you need to know about

the Crimson Tide coming off a season when Georgia finally won a national title in Alabama,

didn't. But before we get to Aaron, lots to talk to. You and I both had some what we thought were interesting pieces.

You have gone back to the well on the NIL front.

And I think for a lot of people who read your story, some of the things that jumped out were, wait a minute, a three-star defensive lineman can command this kind of money.

And I think there's some other aspects of it that were a little bit eye-catching.

For the readers who have not seen your story yet, what would you want that?

What was your takeaway going into this piece?

My goal with the story was just to give people a sense of what the market is out there. What kind of

money is floating around from these NIL collectives to the recruits? The $8 million deal I reported

about in March, you know, obviously it was very shocking to people, but that was not necessarily

the norm. What are, you know, the lower down kids getting?

And, you know, I was able to see three of those contracts.

You know, one was a four-star receiver who got north of a million dollars spread out over four years.

A pretty highly ranked, he's four-star, a pretty highly ranked defensive linemen, got a million over three years. Um, a pretty highly ranked, he's four star, a pretty highly ranked defensive linemen, uh, got a

million over three years. Uh, and then like you said, even a three star defensive lineman, um,

you know, getting $500,000 spread over four years when I was thinking about that and I was

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