EA pays $17k per player for Madden, so that's probably $20-$30 million to the NFLPA . I can imagine schools will likely give each conference to negotiate a flat rate for each team/player (just as they did for the team logos and uniforms). Even if they only pay half that for NCAA players, that comes out to $1,475 per Division 1 scholarship football player.EA isn't paying 6 or 7 figures to get a player in the game lol. Maybe for the cover, maybe. But there's zero chance they're dropping multiple millions of dollars per year to put every All American or All Conference player in a video game, while also paying off the other 10,000 D-1 football players. Kids are gonna take whatever money is offered by EA because they won't want to be the loser who got left out of the game.
Power 5 players will probably get a few thousand each, G5 probably a few hundred.
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