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NIL is a long time coming, but still more work to do

July 14, 2021

Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) knows these issues better than probably any member of Congress, having played collegiately at Baylor, then as a linebacker for the Tennessee Titans. In college, he remembers playing the NCAA Football video game as himself — “they had a linebacker on there, number 34, from Dallas, 6-foot-2, 238, all of my measurements,” — but of course never seeing a dime from being the Bears’ featured player in the game. Allred now represents a district in the Dallas area, so between his football and Congressional experience, he’s keenly aware of the Texas-Oklahoma dynamic.