Colorado Buffaloes SALT LAKE CITY, UT – NOVEMBER 28: General view of Colorado Buffaloes game helmets on the field at Rice-Eccles Stadium before the game between the Buffaloes and the Utah Utes on November 28, 2015 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by Gene Sweeney Jr/Getty Images)
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With a few months to go until the 2024 college football season, the Colorado Buffaloes are back in the news. Specifically, Shilo Sanders, the son of Deion Sanders, has found himself in a troubling situation.

According to On3, Sanders and his NIL earnings have now “come into question.” Sanders faces an egregious lawsuit in Texas, where he played high school football, totaling nearly $12 million.

“Shilo Sanders’ NIL earnings have been called into questiona fter declaring bankruptcy in court,” On3 wrote, stemming off a report from Denver Westword.

“He’s facing a $11.89M lawsuit alleging he attacked a security guard at a Texas high school in 2015.”

The report writes that the lawsuit went to trial in 2022, he failed to appear in court, and thus lost his judgement on it. The proceeding, On3 writes, “stems” from that incident that occurred in 2015. A disclosure that emerged showed “just shy of $325,000 worth of assets to his name” in the December 2023 case, said On3.

Sanders is alleged to have “not fully represented the totality of his assets. And what is not clearly represented are Sanders’ NIL earnings.” John Darjean, the security guard assaulted in the incident, alleges in the suit that they’re “being funneled through a pair of LLCs.”

That’s certainly a discouraging situation, and one that might be worth wondering further about. Nonetheless, plenty had much to say over this brutal news for the Colorado defensive back.

[On3 Sports]

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