Texas Basketball: 3 players that benefit most from NIL law

Jaylon Tyson, F

The main reason why someone like the incoming freshman small forward and Plano, TX, native Jaylon Tyson makes this list over other Longhorns players with more college experience is the fact that he will get to fully absorb this process with the new NIL rules. Tyson will get essentially a complete college career with the ability to use his name and likeness to his own benefit.

This is something that sounds astounding to Longhorns basketball players from years past. And this is also something that Tyson likely didn’t expect would happen so fast after he signed with the Longhorns 2021 class to follow the former Texas Tech Red Raiders head coach Chris Beard to Austin.

Tyson is definitely talented enough that he will get the opportunity to sign a nice sponsorship deal during his freshman campaign. He will also have the opportunity to see how other Longhorns players are dealing with the new NIL rules this season and he can learn from that.

Texas is likely to give Tyson a better shot to use NIL to his full benefit compared to what he would’ve gotten at Texas Tech. Tyson was originally a Texas Tech commit prior to flipping to Texas to follow Beard a few months back.

He is also essentially the lone ranked signee in the Longhorns 2021 class among high school prospects. Texas lost all of their other original commits/signees in the 2021 class following the departure of the now-former head coach Shaka Smart back in March in April.