This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to Prospects to Prospects to Pros, the podcast that covers the guys going in the NFL draft,

the guys who Gus got drafted in the NFL and everything in between.

And Dane Brueger, we're talking about new stuff today, stuff that we've never really

had to talk about before with respect to the NFL draft.

But we're talking about guys that might make more money staying in college.

Our friend Jim Nagy tweeted something out from the senior ball on Tuesday morning saying he's hearing

about deals up to $5 million, NIL deals for some quarterbacks to stay in school or to

have another year at their school

and that is thinning out the 2003 quarterback class.

And while as someone who covers college football and talks to the people at the schools

and the NIL people all the time, the five million very difficult to believe because it is lying season. And basically

every kid's agent is lying to every collective out there saying, well, school X is going to give

him this. So what are you going to give him? They're all lying to pump up the market. But that said,

there are deals where people are staying at their school

when they could have gone to what would be perceived as a bigger school. That would be Quinn Sean Judkins,

the running back at Ole Miss. Everybody assumed that Auburn or Alabama would scoop him up.

Nope, he's saying signed a deal. But he was a freshman. He's not draft eligible. It's different when NFL money comes in.

But Jim's point, and I thought it was very interesting, and you and I were trading names before we

started the show, there are quarterbacks who are very good college quarterbacks coming off

very good years, who probably would be fifth, sixth, seventh round picks in the draft,

who might not make the roster next year, or might make the, you know, basically the minimum

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