Following the Blockfolio press announcement, USA Today aggregated the Madden 23 coins and this is where that the confusion started.

The story that was published by Madden NFL 23 added the word "signing bonus" which was given on the Blockfolio press release. Then, it mixed it up with Lawrence's actual Madden NFL 23 signing bonus with the Jaguars which reported the amount as $24.1M as well as using Spotrac as an source."The most likely number. 1 overall pick during the 2021 Madden NFL 23 draft, likely to be drafted by his home team, the Jacksonville Jaguars, has partnered with a leading cryptocurrency investment app known as Blockfolio and will place his bonus in an account in the firm."

"According to Spotrac this year's signing bonus Lawrence this season's no. 1 selection is $22.630.055." We now have an endorsement agreement with Blockfolio, presumably fairly small relative to the rest of the world and was paid in crypto . And recently, it's been tied to Lawrence's enormous Madden NFL 23 signing bonus from the league. The league has also misreported the fact that the money was deposited into cryptocurrency. If it was an honest error, or a plot to turn a story seem more sexually attractive, we're in the same place: an endorsement agreement with a crypto-related company was paid with crypto and nothing more.

Then, on Tuesday, an editor from the Sun Sentinel took information published by Coinjournal and put out an unintentional tweet mocking the Jaguars QB. Of course, we know it's not true -There's no evidence that Lawrence invested his $24 million in crypto. The fact is that this information was reported in many stories that claimed Lawrence had misplaced his bag however this was not the situation.

This is great news. Everyone should not be rooting for someone losing money, not even as a source of schadenfreude. Trevor Lawrence is a really good guy, and it is a bit disappointing to think that he cheated one of the biggest payouts of his professional football career- but instead he probably only lost a chunk out of the original endorsement deal. This is a bummer, but far from devastating.

A buy mut coins madden 23  player finds himself caught up in one of the biggest scandals the league has ever faced, and the silence from major figures has never more noticeable.