{"id":166479,"date":"2022-12-23T20:33:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T20:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/transfer-talk-5m-nil-deals-all-rumors\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T20:33:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T20:33:12","slug":"transfer-talk-5m-nil-deals-all-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/transfer-talk-5m-nil-deals-all-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer talk, $5M NIL deals all ‘rumors’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Six months ago, North Carolina redshirt freshman quarterback Drake Maye wasn’t sure if he’d win the starting job at the school. Since then, he has emerged as a projected top NFL draft pick for 2024 and the unwitting face of the free market that has emerged in college football.<\/p>\n
In an interview with ESPN on Thursday, Maye reflected on the past few weeks, which included a social media post declaring he was staying at UNC as a way to combats of him entering the transfer portal. Pittsburgh coach Pat Narduzzi stoked the flames by saying this week that two schools offered Maye $5 million to transfer.<\/p>\n
“Those rumors weren’t really reality,” he told ESPN. He added: “Pitt’s coach ended up putting that out there. I don’t know what that was about. You have to enter the transfer portal to talk to these schools and hear these offers. For me, I think college football is going to turn into a mess. They’re going to have to do something. There was nothing to me or my family directly offered from any of these other schools. Nothing was said or offered to the Mayes.”<\/p>\n