"Disaster" Agents In NIL 👀

PLUS Tyson Fury Retiring Again? Carson Beck’s Insane NIL Deal, NFL Wild Card Day 2

January 13, 2025

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Welcome to Office Chair Sports! Your home for everything Sports & Biz! Today, we’re covering top news about:

  • Tyson Fury Retiring Again?

  • The Year Of The Front Four

  • NFL Wild Card Day 2

  • Carson Beck’s Insane NIL Deal

  • Scumbag Agents In NIL

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Tyson Fury Retiring Again?

Guess who's "retiring" again? Tyson Fury just announced he's hanging up the gloves... for like the 4th time.

The former heavyweight champ dropped the news on social media just a month after losing his rematch to Oleksandr Usyk.

But we’ve heard this story before. Specifically in 2013, 2017, 2022, and now 2025. He even threw in some weird reference to Dick Turpin, some old-school English robber, because that’s who Tyson Fury is.

There were rumors about a massive fight with Anthony Joshua at Wembley this summer. Eddie Hearn (Joshua's promoter) isn't buying it, suggesting this might just be Fury's way of negotiating a bigger payday.

The Year Of The Front Four

2025 NFL Draft is coming and this class is interesting. We have the stars from Colorado, Travis and Shedeur, but there are a lot of promising big fellas this year.

Analysts are seeing this draft class as an opportunity for teams to beef up their pass rush.

NFL Wild Card Day 2

NFL Wild Card Day 2 is in the books. Here’s what stood out from Sunday:

First off, Jayden Daniels just showed everyone he's the real deal. He walked into Tampa, faced Todd Bowles' defense, and straight-up balled out to give Washington their first playoff win since '05.

The Eagles survived the Packers, but their defense was the star of the show.

Over in Buffalo, Sean Payton and the Broncos got a reality check against Josh Allen and the Bills. James Cook was cooking (pun intended) with 120 yards.

Carson Beck’s Insane NIL Deal

NIL money in college football is getting WILD! Carson Beck just landed a $4M bag to play for Miami in 2025, and it was actually LESS than what he was initially asking for!

The craziest part? Beck's gonna make more money staying in college than he would've in the NFL right now. His draft stock took a hit after throwing a bunch of picks and hurting his elbow, so he might've slipped to the third round. For comparison, an NFL third-rounder like Hendon Hooker only makes about $1.4M a year.

Miami's been throwing around serious cash lately - they even offered over $3M to John Mateer before he picked Oklahoma, and they were ready to back up the Brinks truck for guys like Quinn Ewers and Jayden Maiava too. This is all following their success with Cam Ward, who turned one year at Miami into a likely first-round NFL draft pick.

College football in 2025 is officially paying better than the pros for some of these guys.

Absolutely wild.

Scumbag Agents In NIL

With big money getting thrown around, there’s bound to be some chaos.

We've got agents trying to justify taking 20% from college athletes' NIL deals, while pro agents only take 3-5% from NFL and NBA contracts.

Lane Kiffin's not having any of it. Even though his Ole Miss program is crushing it in the NIL game, he's calling the whole thing a "disaster."

These universities have law schools and business programs, but they're not doing anything to protect their athletes from these predatory agents. CBS Sports' Josh Pate put it perfectly, basically saying these agents are banking on players and their families not knowing any better.

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