Bralen Trice Was Money Player in More Ways Than One for UW

College football players are entitled to use their name, image and licensing money however they please. No rules exist for their spending practices. They answer to no one in how they use it. 

Many of these guys send these newly acquired finances home to help their families with household bills. Recently graduated University of Washington safety Dominique Hampton revealed how he bought his mother a bag as a gift that he otherwise wouldn't have been able to afford.

An SEC football player recently pulled up on campus driving a Lamborghini, showing off his good fortune and his expensive taste in cars.

For those who think this pay-the-players process leads only to greed, excess and avarice, consider what former Husky edge rusher Bralen Trice — who should become a very rich man after going in the upcoming NFL draft likely as a first-round pick — is doing with his college reparations.

At the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, the 6-foot-4, 274-pound elite football player from Phoenix, Arizona, revealed how, on a church mission with a Husky teammate, he's helping a man in the Dominican Republic finish building a home that's sat half finished for years.

"Everything touched me being out there, spreading the word of God, being around people who support me, having that opportunity with NIL," Trice said on media day for the College Football Playoff semifinals

Trice explained how the person was a Haitian refugee who came to the Dominican Republic as a teenager and raised two kids after losing his wife and was now in his 40s. The football player was moved  by it all.

"I'm going to help him build that house," he said. "He seemed amazingly happy."

As for NIL in general, Trice shared how he and former Husky coach Kalen DeBoer first sat down and talked about the money now being set aside for players everywhere and how he viewed it.

DeBoer might have been more than a little surprised by Trice's old-school approach to this supposed financial windfall.

"I remember telling him, I said, 'I could care less about that stuff, to be honest,' " Trice said. "It's not how I am or how I was raised. I was more focused on winning games with the guys next to me, to be honest. Money doesn't really play a factor there to me."

Instead, a man in the Dominican Republic now will benefit from Trice's good fortune and best intentions.