Known NIL deals

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Almost no college football player's pay is public. Schools withhold revenue-sharing contracts, collectives are private, and no state's open-records law has produced a named, priced Power 4 football contract. This table lists only the 8 players (11 deals) whose deal amounts were disclosed in a court filing or credibly reported by news outlets.

Read this first: every amount here is a contract value or a reported deal value, not money the player received. Deals get renegotiated, bought out or terminated (Jaden Rashada's $13.85M contract was terminated; his complaint says about $150K was paid). Court-filing figures are claims made in a lawsuit. Reported figures are attributed to the outlets that published them; schools have not confirmed any of them.

Source type 11 rows

Player	School	Pos.	Period	Amount (not money received)	Paid by / type	Source type	Notes	Sources
Darian Mensah	Duke	QB	2025-26 (2 seasons)	$4,000,000 per year, 2 years Contract value · court filing	Duke University school revenue share	Court filing court filing + reporting: Duke v. Mensah suit (Durham County Superior Court, Jan 2026) over a "two-year $4M-per-year NIL contract"; CBS Sports reported the same terms in Jul 2025	Signed Dec 2024; executed Jul 2025 after the House settlement. Settled confidentially Jan 2026.	[newsobserver.com] [cbssports.com]
Darian Mensah	Miami	QB	2026	about $6,000,000 (1 year) + about $4,000,000 Duke buyout (reported) Reported deal value	University of Miami (per reports) school revenue share	Press reporting reputable reporting ("reportedly"); settlement terms confidential	—	[dukewire.usatoday.com] [nytimes.com]
Brendan Sorsby	Texas Tech	QB	2026	$4M-$6M (1 season, per media reports cited in court complaint) Reported · media reports cited in a court filing	Texas Tech (receiving school, per reports) school revenue share / NIL	Court filing court filing quoting media reports (Univ. of Cincinnati v. Sorsby, S.D. Ohio, Feb 2026)	Same complaint: Cincinnati says it paid Sorsby $875,800 for 2025 and claims a $1M liquidated-damages buyout.	[storage.courtlistener.com] [apnews.com]
Brendan Sorsby	Cincinnati	QB	2025	$875,800 for the 2025 season (per Cincinnati); $1,000,000 liquidated-damages clause Contract value · court filing	University of Cincinnati school revenue share	Court filing court filing (the university is the plaintiff)	—	[storage.courtlistener.com]
Jaden Rashada	Florida	QB	signed Nov 2022 (would have covered 2023-26)	$13,850,000 over 4 years (contract; terminated, about $150K paid per complaint) Contract value · court filing	The Gator Collective LLC collective	Court filing court filing (contract attached as an exhibit to Rashada v. Hathcock, N.D. Fla. 3:24-cv-00219)	Never played for Florida. Miami collective offer reported at $9.5M per complaint. Settled confidentially Feb 2026.	[on3.com] [static01.nyt.com] [apnews.com]
Bryce Underwood	Michigan	QB	2025-28 (4 years)	about $10.5M-$12M over 4 years (reported) Reported deal value	Champions Circle (backed by Larry and Jolin Ellison per collective statement) collective	Press reporting reputable reporting (On3/The Wolverine, NY Post, Fortune); The Athletic: "more than $10 million" per two Michigan sources	High-school recruit at commitment (Nov 2024).	[on3.com] [fortune.com] [nytimes.com]
Nico Iamaleava	Tennessee	QB	2024	about $2.4M per year (reported; part of an about $8M, 4-year deal) Reported deal value	Spyre Sports Group (Tennessee collective, per reports) collective	Press reporting reputable reporting	—	[reuters.com] [nytimes.com] [cbssports.com]
Nico Iamaleava	UCLA	QB	2025	reported figures conflict (about $1M-$1.5M+) Reported deal value	UCLA (per reports) school revenue share / NIL	Press reporting reputable reporting; figures conflict, so treat as unconfirmed	UCLA denied CBS Sports a records request, citing FERPA.	[sportingnews.com]
Demond Williams Jr.	Washington	QB	2026	about $4M (1 year; some reports say $4.5M) Reported deal value	University of Washington school revenue share	Press reporting reputable reporting (Seattle Times, AP); UW withholds the contracts as trade secrets	—	[seattletimes.com] [apnews.com]
Drew Mestemaker	Oklahoma State	QB	2026-27	$7M over 2 years (later report: $7.5M) Reported deal value	Oklahoma State (per reports) school revenue share / NIL	Press reporting reputable reporting (figures differ by $0.5M)	—	[dentonrc.com] [sports.yahoo.com]
Felix Ojo	Texas Tech	OT	2025-27	3-year deal averaging $775,000/yr (reported) Reported deal value	Texas Tech school revenue share	Press reporting reputable reporting (CBS Sports)	—	[cbssports.com]

Methodology

What's included: a deal appears only if its dollar amount was disclosed in a court filing (4 deals) or reported by a named news outlet with sources (7 deals). Each row links to every source used.
What's left out: On3 “NIL valuations” and similar rankings. Those are model estimates of a player's market value, not payments, so players who only have a valuation are not listed. Team-level roster estimates appear, labeled, on the revenue sharing tracker.
Labels: “Contract value · court filing” = the amount comes from the contract or terms described in a lawsuit. “Reported deal value” = the amount comes from news reporting, often citing unnamed sources. Where reports disagree, the range or conflict is shown.
Paid by: who the source says pays the player: the school (revenue sharing), a collective, or both. “Per reports” means the payer is not confirmed by the school.
Public records: requests in several states have been denied (FERPA or state exemptions) or produced redacted or anonymized records only, so no row comes from an open-records release.
Dates: deals get renegotiated, bought out or terminated. Each row shows the period the figure covers, as of the sources linked.

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