South Carolina quarterback LaNorris Sellers should be pretty popular among the school’s fans for an impressive show of loyalty this offseason.
Sellers’ father Norris admitted that the South Carolina quarterback received a 2-year, $8 million NIL offer from an unidentified school to try to tempt the quarterback into transferring from the Gamecocks. Both Sellers and his father agreed, however, that the right thing to do was to stick with his current school.
“He was offered all kinds of crazy numbers,” Norris Sellers told Bruce Feldman of The Athletic. “I told him he could say, I’m gonna stay or I’m gonna go. By my two cents: It was to get into college on a scholarship, play ball, get our degree and go on about our business. This NIL deal came later. We didn’t come here to make money. We came here to get our education, play ball, and with schools calling, we’re not gonna jump ship because they’re offering more than what we’re getting. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
The quarterback had a simpler explanation.
“I’ve been playing football all of my life for free,” LaNorris said. “I’ve built relationships here, my family’s here, my brother’s here. There’s no reason for me to go someplace else and start over.”
Sellers is viewed as a potential first-round pick in next year’s NFL Draft if he goes pro. As a freshman, he threw for 2,534 yards and 18 touchdowns, and rushed for 674 yards and seven more scores.
The $8 million figure is a huge number considering what some other quarterbacks got when they transferred this past spring. Credit to Sellers for staying loyal and deciding that the best thing for his development is to continue it with his current coaches and teammates.
