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James Steel

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James Steel

DL

3★ Recruit

James Steel's number is estimated from Delaware's total NIL environment, the football pool, roster slot, and position profile, then checked against public reporting and recent coverage. The page pulls together the estimate, the confidence read, and the latest public NIL chatter in one fast scan.

2026 NIL value

$11K-$23K

Midpoint signal: $17K

Confidence meter

Low confidence

This range leans mostly on school spend and roster context because public NIL evidence is thin.

Share of sport pool

1.0%

Football pool: $1.7M

Share of school total

0.6%

Delaware total: $2.9M

Roster dollars tracked

$1.7M

Delaware Football pool-accounting sum

Coverage hits

0

No fresh NIL chatter found

The Sideline read

James Steel sits inside the Delaware Football money picture as a DL piece with a midpoint NIL signal of $17K. That lands at roughly 1.0% of the team's sport pool.

The confidence meter reflects how much hard public reporting exists versus how much of the range is still being inferred from roster role, school spend, and recent NIL coverage.

This page is built for fast scanning: estimate first, context second, methodology third.See the full NIL methodology

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School NIL Page

Delaware NIL

Full school breakdown, roster search, spending tiers, and position-by-position comps.

School Hub

Hub not live yet

This program has a NIL page, but no dedicated community hub is wired up yet.

NIL coverage and deal chatter

We search for NIL, deal, endorsement, and collective coverage so actual player articles are more likely to surface here.

No fresh NIL-specific coverage turned up for James Steel. That usually means the range above is leaning more on roster context and school-level reporting than on newly published player-specific deal coverage.

Where the number comes from

School NIL total$2.9M
Football pool$1.7M
Player midpoint$17K
Confidence score34/100

Same-room comps

Other Delaware DL estimates.