Terrelle Pryor is one of many former college football stars who is trying to sue to claim that they should be owed NIL money after losing out on the NCAA’s antiquated system for years. Unfortunately though, he was not successful.

Pryor was a star quarterback at Ohio State and one of the most heavily hyped recruits of the modern era. After winning the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl with the Buckeyes, he left the program following the infamous TattooGate episode before playing seven seasons in the NFL as a quarterback and wide receiver.

But as it was reported by On3, Pryor saw his lawsuit dismissed as Judge Sarah D. Morrison ruled that Pryor’s claims had been surpassed by the statute of limitations for antitrust claims and that Ohio State had sovereign immunity.

Former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor joined the wave of athletes filing lawsuits over denied NIL dollars last October, suing the university, the NCAA and the Big Ten. A judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio dismissed the lawsuit on Friday.

The former Big Ten Freshman of the Year argued in his intial filing that athletes were “purposefully excluded from this waterfall of money for many years.” Athletes could not legally profit from their name, image and likeness until July 2021. The former Ohio State quarterback was involved in the tattoo scandal that resulted in Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel’s resignation, with the entire situation looking worse in hindsight after the NCAA finally granted NIL.

In the ruling on Friday, Judge Sarah D. Morrison dismissed the suit. In her ruling, Morrison wrote that Ohio State must be dismissed for sovereign immunity, and Pryor’s claims against the defendants are untimely given the four-year statute of limitations for antitrust claims.

It’s a blow for Terrelle Pryor and the other college athletes from a lost generation who are unlikely to see NIL payouts that they should have received a long time ago.

But Pryor’s case is unique in that he may be the unluckiest athlete of them all.

Not only did Terrelle Pryor star at Ohio State before NIL was a thing, losing out on potentially millions of dollars of revenue, he saw his college football career end thanks to exchanging OSU related memorabilia for tattoos. The story was a huge scandal at the time, cost Jim Tressel his job as head coach, and led to Pryor withdrawing from the school and entering the supplemental draft. Of course, it’s laughable to consider the punishment and the crime nowadays, but that’s how the college football world once worked.

But to add insult to injury, Pryor was also suspended by the NFL for five games due to what happened at Ohio State, which was and still is an unprecedented act. The audacity of the NFL to suspend a player before entering the league over something that happened with NCAA rules is impossible to explain but it actually happened. Thankfully, no other college player will have to suffer the same fate in the future from the NCAA or the NFL now that NIL has come into existence.