{"id":869306,"date":"2026-04-18T17:21:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/869306\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T17:21:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:21:46","slug":"baltimore-ravens-gm-hates-nil-in-college-footbal-for-strange-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/869306\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Ravens GM Hates NIL in College Footbal For Strange Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems that Baltimore Ravens<\/a> general manager Eric DeCosta hates name, image, and likeness deals in college football. But the reason why is a bit odd.<\/p>\n

NIL money in college sports, especially in football, has completely changed the industry. For decades, programs were solely built around the ability to grab hearts and minds in the living rooms and kitchens of high school recruits. <\/p>\n

However, now a program can quickly turn things around in just one offseason if they have enough money to get the best players in the transfer portal or the high school ranks. While it has brought an absurd level of volatility to college sports, it has also offered athletes long overdue money making opportunites. Which means they aren\u2019t in a rush to get to the pro ranks to make big bucks <\/p>\n

Well, it seems that Ravens\u2019 general manager hates it because it means he can\u2019t get his hands on prospects sooner, and isn\u2019t into \u201colder\u201d players.<\/p>\n

Baltimore Ravens GM hates \u2018older\u2019 players from NFL Draft<\/p>\n

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\u201cPlayers are older. The average age of the players is not necessarily older, but there are older players in the draft,\u201d DeCosta said this week<\/a>. \u2018We\u2019re seeing more 24 and 25-year-old players. That\u2019s because of NIL, guys are getting paid to stay in. That\u2019s problematic for us because if guys are coming in older, they\u2019ve probably got less upside. They\u2019re not three-contract players in some cases; they\u2019re two-contract players. And in some cases, they\u2019ve got more injuries. They\u2019ve been playing college football longer, so they\u2019ve taken on more injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 We might have had 4 percent of our players on the draft board 24 1\/2 or older before 2024. Now that number is up to 18 percent. So we\u2019ve seen a 14 percent increase in older players on the draft board,\u201d he added. \u201c\u2026 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good thing, certainly. Historically, we\u2019ve tried to draft younger players when we can. That\u2019s something we feel strongly.\u201d<\/p>\n

So essentially, DeCosta would rather see college football players make less money so he can use them sooner for the Ravens\u2019 best interest. Even if that means cutting them in a few seasons. Furthermore, while his point about accumulating more injuries is fair, extra years in college also mean more experience and being better prepared to make an impact in the NFL instead of needing further development.<\/p>\n

It is a bit weird to dislike more experienced talent that were able to make good money before the NFL chews most of them up and spits them out.<\/p>\n

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\t\tAfter earning his journalism degree in 2017, Jason Burgos served as a contributor to several sites, including MMA Sucka … More about Jason Burgos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It seems that Baltimore Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta hates name, image, and likeness deals in college football.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,7,6,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-869306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-baltimoreravens","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116426867323064992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869306","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=869306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}