The restaurant chain Hooters is dipping its toe in the NIL game, as it has reportedly signed a number of college football players to name, image and likeness deals.
And they’re all offensive linemen.
Among the list of players to sign, seven of them play for the Tigers: [autotag]Kimo Makane’ole[/autotag], [autotag]Lanson Smith[/autotag], [autotag]Fitzgerald West Jr.[/autotag], [autotag]Miles Frazier[/autotag], [autotag]Marcus Dumervil[/autotag], [autotag]Xavier Hill[/autotag] and [autotag]Kardell Thomas[/autotag]. Two of them — Frazier and Dumervil — are in the mix for starting jobs as fall camp winds down.
Frazier is a transfer from Florida International expected to win one of the starting guard jobs, while Dumervil is a sophomore who was a rotational piece last season but could expand his role this fall. Coach [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag] said that he has missed part of fall camp with an ankle injury.
Hooters has signed the following offensive linemen to a name, image and likeness deal. pic.twitter.com/6MSV6GY652
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) August 22, 2022
This may not be the most conventional NIL deal, but the bag is the bag, and LSU’s linemen won’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
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