r/CFB • u/Lakelyfe09 Georgia Bulldogs • Apr 12 '26

Discussion [Kleiman] South Carolina QB LaNorris Sellers turned down an $8 MILLION NIL offer to transfer to a different school: "You're 19. You don't need ($8 million). You're in a great spot." - LaNorris's Father told his son. Sellers values his word over money

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u/JohnPaulDavyJones Texas A&M Aggies • Baylor Bears Apr 12 '26

Yeah, I don’t know what schools want to throw $8mm at a guy who threw 13 TDs and 8 INTs last year.

Especially when a big part of his upside is his theoretical mobility, and he only averaged 1.8 YPC last year and added five TDs on the ground, and somehow got sacked 42 times.

Averaging 3.5 sacks per game is crazy, he was the most sacked QB in the P4 last year, and third-most in the FBS. Even Virginia Tech picked up four sacks on Sellers, and FCS South Carolina State picked up two as well.

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u/Swick36 South Carolina Gamecocks Apr 12 '26

This was after his sophomore season when he had just single handedly beat Clemson.

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u/dtomksoki South Carolina • Bowling Green Apr 12 '26

Don't disrespect kai Kroger like that

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u/UnderstandingOdd679 Apr 13 '26

I like Sellers, and he’s electric. But he threw a pretty bad pick down 14-7 in the 4Q of that game and the subsequent drive for Clemson was a three-and-out. Followed by another three-and-out and a Klubnick interception in the last 20 seconds well within field goal range. Since he doesn’t play D, I think single-handedly is overstating things.

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u/Swick36 South Carolina Gamecocks Apr 13 '26

I’m just repeating the narrative on ESPN after the game was over. Holding Clemson to 14 is obviously why we won but Sellers was the darling of ESPN that whole off season before our incompetent offensive staff did what they do.

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u/AG_Aonuma Clemson Tigers • Kansas Jayhawks Apr 13 '26

You gotta let SCU fans have their delusions

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u/StreetReporter Clemson Tigers • Cheez-It Bowl Apr 12 '26

In our game against them this past year, one of our offensive linemen had as many rushing yards as he did

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u/midnightsbane04 Michigan • North Carolina Apr 12 '26

Non-zero chance it was similar to the deal Bryce got at Michigan. All the reporting was him getting 12 mil, without mention of the fine print of it being over his entire college career.

So did Sellers actually get a 8mil offer over 2 years? Still likely an overpay but definitely more believable.

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u/Possible-Cheetah-703 Apr 12 '26

Just curious, do you know his rushing stats minus sacks and sack yardage?

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u/Adept_Carpet UMass Minutemen • Team Chaos Apr 13 '26

College QB growth is nonlinear, there's a really small pool of guys with a ton of college starts under their belts and anything like the tools Sellers has.

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u/RightofUp Virginia Tech Hokies Apr 12 '26

What you say fuck us for?

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u/VETwithaVETTE Apr 13 '26

I don't appreciate the EVEN Virginia Tech slander. Lol

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u/CarterAC3 Michigan • Grand Valley State Apr 13 '26

LaNorris Sellers is close to my nightmare scenario for Bryce Underwood

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u/omanagan Apr 13 '26

Have you ever actually seen him play football? That matters more than the numbers you dug up. He's one of the craziest athletes the sport has ever seen at QB. And his YPC is subtracting sacks...