EA Sports and college football players will partner to include the chance for all eligible FBS players to opt in to have their likenesses in EA Sports College Football. Players will receive compensation for being placed in the game.
Details — such as how much an athlete will receive and the structure of payments — are still being finalized, but the EA Sports representative said the goal is to be “as inclusive and equitable as possible.” On the OneTeam website, the company stated that if the influence of individual sales couldn’t be figured out — including for video game licensing — then “revenue will be divided equally among the athletes included in each licensing program.”
If a player does not want to be in the game, EA Sports would create a generic avatar and player in that athlete’s place.