Payday: Texas A&M NIL compensation for men's, women's sports revealed in 2024-25 year

Texas A&M student athletes reportedly received over $50 million combined from July 1, 2024 to June 30th, 2025, per Alex Miller of The Eagle. It was a massive amount to the student athletes as college athletics navigate the world of the transfer portal and name, image and likeness.

Based on the breakdown, the men’s sports, largely due to football, received more money in NIL compensation over the last calendar year. The figures were received through open records.

The numbers are assumed to increase year to year based on current trajectories of where athletics, collegiately anyway, are going. Granted, figures can also increase if each of the respective athletes and programs are successful as well.

“Texas A&M student-athletes received a combined $51.4 million in NIL compensation from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, according to figures received through open records,” Miller wrote on Twitter. “Men’s sports received a combined $49.2M. Women’s sports received a combined $2.2M.”

As the report points out, men’s sports received nearly $50 million while women’s sports topped $2 million over the last year. Again, football and men’s basketball are generally the dominate revenue generating sports at the Division 1 level nationwide.

Judging by what Texas A&M can do in the NIL space, just imagine this was around over a decade ago. Former Aggies’ quarterback Johnny Manziel, who won the Heisman Trophy as a freshman, believes his rookie NFL contract would’ve been a pay cut compared to what he could’ve hypothetically made at Texas A&M had he stayed in school.

“I tell people this all the time, and they asked me this, I really feel like I would have taken a pay cut had I gone to the NFL,” Manziel said on Always College Football. “I mean, that’s really what it would have been. I mean, it is crazy times that we’re living, and I think, you know, in a lot of areas, still figuring out exactly how to make it work the right way, where it’s not just the biggest boosters and the richest schools. If you look at A&M, you know, I feel like we’ve put a ton of money in it to our NIL, and it hasn’t necessarily translated onto the field. 

“So, you know, I feel guys who are playing at a high level, who are really noticeable and really marketable, are making a great amount of money off the field, to the point where guys have the opportunity to stay in school rather than having to go to the NFL early.”