{"id":182757,"date":"2025-07-05T06:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T06:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/182757\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T06:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T06:36:12","slug":"felix-ojo-lands-5-million-nil-deal-after-texas-tech-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/182757\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix\u202fOjo lands $5 million NIL deal after Texas Tech commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five-star offensive tackle Felix\u202fOjo finalized a groundbreaking three-year, fully guaranteed revenue-sharing contract worth approximately $5.1 million after committing to Texas Tech, his agent, Derrick Shelby, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/45669339\/five-star-ot-felix-ojo-commits-texas-tech-lands-5m+-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">confirmed to ESPN on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, which is one of the largest of its kind since direct athlete compensation became legal, sets a new benchmark in college football.<\/p>\n<p>Ojo, ranked No.\u202f20 in the ESPN 300 and No.\u202f4 among offensive tackles, attended Lake Ridge High School in Texas and measures in at 6\u2011foot\u20117 and 285\u202fpounds during the spring.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66699219;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36441976\" width=\"394\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AP25083184286328.jpg\" alt=\"California Power's Felix Ojo during OT7 Week 2 Sunday, March 23, 2025, in Dallas.\" class=\"wp-image-36441976\"  \/>Felix Ojo during OT7 Week 2 Sunday, March 23, 2025, in Dallas. AP<\/p>\n<p>A standout pass blocker and run-stuffer, Ojo attracted offers from major programs, most notably fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/23\/sports\/ncaa-power-five-approve-bombshell-2-8-billion-settlement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">power five schools<\/a> in Texas, Florida, Michigan, Ohio State and Ole\u202fMiss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball is a brutal sport, and athletes are not able to play professionally until their graduating class has been in college three years,\u201d Shelby said to ESPN. \u201cIt was important to be able to secure Felix Ojo\u2019s future and give him and his family some security as he continues to develop into a first-round NFL draft pick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deal is similar to the $5 million-plus NIL deal received by top tackle Jackson Cantwell, who joined Miami earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Ojo committed to the Red Raiders on July 4, positioning the offensive tackle as <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/06\/sports\/texas-beats-texas-tech-to-win-first-softball-national-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Tech\u2019s highest-rated<\/a> recruit since ESPN began tracking in 2006.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36441990\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2169663254.jpg\" alt=\"Mascot Raider Red gestures as Texas Tech fans throw tortillas on the field during the opening kickoff on August 31, 2024. \" class=\"wp-image-36441990\"  \/>Mascot Raider Red gestures as Texas Tech fans throw tortillas on the field during the opening kickoff on August 31, 2024.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Red Raiders invested heavily in talent this year, spending over $10 million across 17 portal transfers.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech is coming off an 8-5 season where it went 6-3 in Big 12 play and lost to Arkansas in the Liberty Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech hasn\u2019t won double-digit games in any season since 2008, when it went 11-2 and lost to Ole Miss <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/10\/sports\/ohio-state-beats-texas-with-emphatic-cotton-bowl-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the Cotton Bowl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In more recent history, Texas Tech just produced a third-round pick from its offensive line this past season, Caleb Rogers, who was selected by the Raiders in the third round of the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five-star offensive tackle Felix\u202fOjo finalized a groundbreaking three-year, fully guaranteed revenue-sharing contract worth approximately $5.1 million after committing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[331,7,8424,4615,9,4721],"class_list":{"0":"post-182757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nil-rules","11":"tag-recruiting","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114799246692240601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182757","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=182757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}