The $4 million difference keeping Trinidad Chambliss at Ole Miss and not NFL

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Trinidad Chambliss made the most of his transfer from Division II Ferris State to Ole Miss.

He wasn't even the starting QB for the Rebels to begin the season, but by the end of the year, he was one of the best players in the country.

Usually, that'd mean he heads for the NFL.

Not in this current football world, though. College football QBs can often make more by staying in school than they can by coming to the NFL.

Depending on how you measure it, Chambliss could make $4 million more this fall playing in the NCAA as he could in the NFL.

"Chambliss is expected to make between $5 million-$6 million this season at Ole Miss," writes The Athletic's David Ubben in a new article on Thursday. "Only the first 11 picks in this year’s draft will make more than $5 million in the first year of their contract, according to Spotrac. If Chambliss was a second- or third-round draft pick, his salary would range from $1.2 million to $2.35 million as a rookie."

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The premise of Ubben's whole article is that, for the first time, there are players leaving college football to go to the NFL and now taking a pay cut.

He uses Will Howard as an example. Howard was a national champion QB at Ohio State, and then he was a sixth-round draft pick by the Pittsburgh Steelers.