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Safety Jett Elad is looking to play football for his fourth university and the chance to land a $500,000 NIL deal. In order to do that, he is taking the NCAA to court.
Elad—who previously played at Ohio University, Garden City Community College in Kansas and UNLV—filed a complaint in a New Jersey federal district court on Thursday, demanding an injunction that would block the NCAA from enforcing a rule that bars his eligibility. Elad hopes to join the Scarlet Knights when spring practices begin Tuesday.
Elad, who turns 24 next month, joins a growing list of seasoned college athletes who litigate their exhaustion of NCAA eligibility. These cases have led to conflicting outcomes, with some athletes gaining injunctions and others coming up short.
At the core of these cases are NCAA eligibility rules limiting an athlete’s participation in sports to five calendar years from when the athlete begins studying at a college and four seasons of intercollegiate competition (including junior college competition) in any one sport. The players argue these rules run afoul of antitrust law. As the players see it, competing businesses—NCAA member schools and conferences—have joined hands to unreasonably deny athletes’ NIL opportunities and, if the House settlement is approved, revenue sharing opportunities, too.
Some of the judges have agreed with the players, reasoning that in the modern world of college sports, college athletes are economic actors whose chance to play—and be paid—is within the realm of antitrust law. Others disagree; they regard eligibility rules as fundamentally non-commercial in nature, since those rules are tied to the education of college students and enrollment at a university. The possibility of an NIL-seeking athlete trying to stay enrolled at a university for…
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Publish date : 2025-03-24 13:00:00
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