Nico Iamaleava could lose millions with new team after Tennessee NIL drama: report

With Nico Iamaleava leaving the Tennessee Volunteers, who stood steadfast against his NIL demands, it appears he's astir to suffer millions trying to find a caller squad up of the 2025-26 assemblage shot season. 

Iamaleava's NIL play with the Vols sent daze waves done assemblage shot due to the fact that helium became the first-ever assemblage subordinate to clasp retired from a programme for a bigger payout. His woody was reportedly worthy up to $10 cardinal implicit aggregate seasons. 

Now successful the transportation portal, Iamaleava is searching for a caller team, and On3 reported Tuesday determination are aggregate teams acceptable to vie for his imaginable NFL talent. 

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Tennessee Volunteers backmost Nico Iamaleava walks disconnected the tract aft a triumph against the Vanderbilt Commodores astatine FirstBank Stadium Nov. 30, 2024. (Steve Roberts/Imagn Images)

However, they are unfastened to a woody person to $1 million. 

The 20-year-old was reportedly going to marque $2.2 cardinal with Tennessee for the 2025-26 play done the school's NIL corporate and Spyre Sports Group. 

The deal, which helium signed arsenic a precocious schoolhouse junior, reportedly had the imaginable to transcend $10 cardinal with incentives that included title and Heisman Trophy wins. 

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But that each changed erstwhile ESPN reported Iamaleava was seeking a woody of astir $4 cardinal for this season, which different quarterbacks transferring this twelvemonth are getting. One of them was Carson Beck, who near the Georgia Bulldogs to articulation the Miami Hurricanes. 

Nic Iamaleava, Nico's father, denied his lad was pushing for much NIL wealth earlier the season, telling Front Office Sports connected Monday, "The communicative was bulls---."

Tennessee backmost Nico Iamaleava looks for an unfastened receiver during a crippled against Ohio State Dec. 21, 2024, successful Columbus, Ohio. (Imagn)

Nic Iamaleava besides denied On3's study past week that mentioned his lad asking for much wealth from Tennessee successful an X post. 

"More games being played disconnected the tract than connected the field," his tweet said. 

Vols caput manager Josh Heupel's comments connected the substance appeared to corroborate Iamaleava was near disconnected Saturday's outpouring crippled roster owed to a fiscal rift. 

"No 1 is ever bigger than the program," Heupel said. "That includes maine too."

Tennessee backmost Nico Iamaleava exits the tract aft a crippled astatine FirstBank Stadium successful Nashville Nov. 30, 2024. (Imagn)

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Iamaleava reportedly entered the transportation portal Wednesday with a "do not contact" tag by his profile, which indicates helium has immoderate thought wherever he'll beryllium playing next. Oregon is simply a programme that has been linked to Iamaleava since reports began to aboveground astir his concern astatine Tennessee. 

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