Five star target Nyckoles Harbor participating in Prospex NIL platform
A new company has created new and interesting NIL engagement opportunities for fans. The Prospex platform is a marketplace that lets fans purchase, trade, and collect custom trading cards featuring big-time recruiting prospects.
Class of 2023 five-star athlete Nyckoles Harbor is a long-time Gamecocks recruiting target and one of the prospects picked by the platform to participate.
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“Prospex has the potential to totally transform the way NIL works for college athletes — allowing everyday fans to show direct support to the athletes considering their school,” Prospex co-founder Patricia Eiting said. “Most importantly, it offers athletes an open, transparent way to assess and capture their true NIL value at the schools they are considering.”
Recruits on the Prospex platform can list as many as ten schools they are considering, each of which will be included on their respective marketplace pages. Fans can buy a school-specific card, adorned with the university’s colors, and, when a player enrolls at that school, fans will get either a physical or web3 version of the card.
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85 percent of the custom card revenue goes to the players as part of the agreement. If fans purchase a school-specific card, and that prospect doesn’t choose that school, fans can get 90 percent of their money back by just turning in the card.
Other participants from the 2023 class include five-star wide receiver Jurrion Dickey, four-star linebacker Blake Nichelson, four-star cornerback Rodrick Pleasant, four-star quarterback Jaden Rashada, and five-star athlete Matayo Uiagalelei are all part of the platform.
Harbor is selling trading cards for Michigan, Maryland, South Carolina and LSU.
More on Nyckoles Harbor
“They definitely set the bar for everybody and everybody had to live off of what they did,” Harbor said of his previous official visit to Columbia during a conversation with On3’s Chad Simmons. “They did a really good job showing how they’re gonna use me offensively, how they’re gonna use me defensively and then also, just being in Columbia for those two days was one of the best experiences I’ve had. I had a lot of fun getting to know the team because I’d already been there, just improving relationships with the team.”
Here’s more on Harbor from his On3 Scouting Summary:
“Nyckoles Harbor is the ultimate definition of a multi-sport star at Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C. Along with his talents on the gridiron, Harbor is one of the best sprinters in the country. He ran a 10.38-second 100-meter time and a 21.36-second 200-meter time as a sophomore. “He runs the 100-meter in 10.3 seconds. He can jump out of the gym. He chases down every quarterback. He has a 3.8 GPA. He works as hard as anyone,” Harbor’s high school coach, Robert Harris, said. Harbor’s father, Azuka Harbor, works as a contamination control engineer at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. His mother, Saundra Harbor, works as a pharmacist. His sister, Giovanna Harbor, is a Penn State alum. He lists cooking as his hobby. Harbor plans to either major in medicine or in engineering.”
