College football players can now profit from likeness, NCAA Football video game

This is the moment many college football fans have been waiting for since Denard Robinson graced the cover of EA Sports NCAA Football 14.

It’s happening. It’s finally happening.

On Tuesday afternoon, NCAA’s governing board unanimously voted to allow student-athletes to profit off name, images and likeness which means that we could soon be lining up outside of GameStop to purchase the latest EA Sports NCAA Football video game.

While this means much more to players than a video game, it does mean that fans can finally get excited for the EA Sports creation which is likely to return. The game stopped production because athletes weren’t getting paid for their likeness and it caused problems legally. Lawsuits took place and EA Sports figured it wasn’t worth trying to fight over.

Now that the athletes can be paid for being in these games — along with jersey sales and image usage — there could be a triumphant return.

The game hasn’t been around since NCAA Football 14 when Denard Robinson graced the cover and fans of the famous franchise have kept their PlayStation 3s and Xbox 360s because they thought it might be the only chance for them to play the game ever again.

That may no longer be the case.

We could soon see Trevor Lawrence grace the cover or maybe it wouldn’t return until 2022, but it’s exciting news, regardless.

This means that players can finally earn money off their likeness being used in the game and that potentially means we may no longer have to see “QB #16” and instead the actual names can be used. This is huge news for student athletes, fans and video game lovers.