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Originally Posted by Jello
There may be a licensing distinction between using college names for a professional league in the player's future, as opposed to using their name in a college game of their present. Maybe the professional league owns the rights to their name in the hypothetical future.
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Names in themselves shouldn't be an issue. The issue in O'Bannon v. NCCA was
Likeness, which is legally distinct from just a name.