What Is the Bottom of an NIL Roster Worth?

Every ranking termiNIL publishes leads with the ceiling — the $6.24 million quarterback, the roster worth $50 million-plus. The floor gets skipped, even though it's where almost every player in the database actually lives.

Half of the 14,519 players termiNIL prices are valued at $69,000 or less. That's the median. The mean is $207,000, nearly 3 times higher — a gap that only opens up when a relatively small group of expensive players is dragging the average well above what a typical roster spot is worth. termiNIL's model ties each valuation to performance grade, recruiting pedigree and social following (see how valuations are calculated); the floor numbers below are read the same way as the ceiling ones, just from the other end of the roster.

What is the median college football roster spot actually worth?

$69,000 — the midpoint of all 14,519 rostered players termiNIL prices, against a $207,000 mean. That roughly 3x gap between median and mean is the clearest sign of how top-heavy the market is: most of the 138 rosters tracked are built mostly of players priced in five and low six figures, with only 499 players, about 3.4%, clearing seven figures. Check where any individual player lands against these figures in the terminal.

Which positions make up the floor of an NIL roster?

Fifteen position groups, ranked by median value, low to high:

The five cheapest groups by median — long snapper, offensive guard, defensive tackle, linebacker and safety — combine for 5,534 players, 38.1% of the entire database, and every one of them has a median value under $50,000. The most expensive position at the median, quarterback ($585,000), prices 16.25 times higher than the cheapest, long snapper ($36,000) — the widest position-to-position gap the model produces.

Where is NIL value most concentrated within a position?

Wide receiver, by a clear margin. Its mean value ($250,000) runs 4.4 times its median ($57,000), the largest mean-to-median gap of any position group — a sign that a relatively small number of elite pass catchers, out of 2,305 modeled wide receivers, are pulling the average well above what a typical roster receiver is worth. Cornerback (2.51x) and offensive tackle (2.50x) are the next most lopsided.

Quarterback tells a different story. Despite having the richest floor in the sport, the position is comparatively even internally — its mean runs only 1.49 times its median, tighter than the wide receiver, cornerback, safety, linebacker or defensive tackle rooms. With only 689 quarterbacks modeled against 2,305 wide receivers, there's simply less room on the depth chart for a handful of outliers to skew the average.

Which positions are priced most evenly, without a handful of stars skewing things?

Kicker, punter and long snapper. Each position's mean sits within 4% of its median — kicker at 1.02x, punter and long snapper both at 1.04x — versus the market-wide gap of roughly 3x. Specialist value tracks fairly consistently across a roster's depth chart instead of concentrating in one or two names, which is the opposite of how wide receiver or cornerback value is distributed.

Every number on this page reads the roster from the bottom instead of the top. For the view from the other direction, see the full team roster value rankings, or look up any player individually in the terminal.

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