NIL contracts have employment and pay-for-play all over them, experts say

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School lawyers are constructing NIL contracts to exert control over athletes without making them official college employees. But experts who reviewed a sampling of more than a dozen NIL contracts obtained by ESPN said the deals bear the hallmarks of employment contracts. Tap below to read the article by Dan Murphy for ESPN.

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