{"id":179265,"date":"2025-07-03T22:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/179265\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T22:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:01:13","slug":"ohio-state-football-fans-have-1-question-for-nike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/179265\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State Football Fans Have 1 Question For Nike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohio State Football Fans Have 1 Question For Nike<\/a> originally appeared on The Spun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ohio State football fans have one question for Nike in the wake of the Jeremiah Smith news.<\/p>\n

Smith, a rising sophomore, is poised to be one of the best players in the country in 2025. The All-American wide receiver had a standout season as a true freshman, helping lead the Buckeyes to the College Football Playoff national championship. Smith has at least two years of college football remaining.<\/p>\n

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This week, Smith announced some big news. He’s signed an endorsement deal with Adidas.<\/p>\n

Smith took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share the cool news.<\/p>\n

“Three Stripes for life,” he wrote on X.<\/p>\n

\"Ohio<\/p>\n

Ohio State Buckeyes wide receiver Jeremiah Smith (4) warm ups before the start of the College Football Playoff National Championship at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on January 20, 2025.\u00a9 Adam Cairns&sol;Columbus Dispatch &sol; USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n

It’s a big-time endorsement deal for Smith. However, it begs the question – where is Nike?<\/p>\n

Ohio State, of course, is a Nike school – one of the biggest, in fact. The Buckeyes football players wear Nike jerseys, pants, socks, cleats, warmup gear, etc.<\/p>\n

Why didn’t Nike shell out an endorsement deal for Smith, instead of letting Adidas scoop him up?<\/p>\n

Ohio State fans are confused.<\/p>\n

“Nike really let Adidas sign Jeremiah Smith even though they have a deal with Ohio State Athletics this is an all-time fumble by Nike,” one fan wrote.<\/p>\n

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“I\u2019m sure Adidas offered a lot but for Nike not to match or exceed it is very surprising,” one fan added.<\/p>\n

“When Nike does this. They do it because of liability reasons. If they see you as an unreliable investment\/or if they feel they can\u2019t find a long term structure for the investment. They will not green light it. Adidas & Reebok will snatch it up. They deal better in short term or high risk investments,” one fan added.<\/p>\n

“He has to wear Nike in college and has to wear Nike in the NFL. He\u2019s free promo. Nike is more of a Basketball company tho. That\u2019s where the real money at,” one fan added.<\/p>\n

Smith will be rocking Nike on the field in 2025, but off of it, expect to see him in a lot of adidas.<\/p>\n

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Ohio State opens the 2025 college football season on Saturday, Aug. 30 against Texas.<\/p>\n

Ohio State Football Fans Have 1 Question For Nike<\/a> first appeared on The Spun on Jul 3, 2025<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by The Spun<\/a> on Jul 3, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ohio State Football Fans Have 1 Question For Nike originally appeared on The Spun. Ohio State football fans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[13043,332,39362,7,2233,9258,1446,21723,1570],"class_list":{"0":"post-179265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-adidas","9":"tag-college-football-playoff","10":"tag-endorsement-deal","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-jeremiah-smith","13":"tag-nike","14":"tag-ohio-state","15":"tag-ohio-state-athletics","16":"tag-ohio-state-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114791559225837491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}