Todd Gurley Reportedly May Have "Accepted Extra Benefits" from Memorabilia Dealers

Todd Gurley has been suspended indefinitely by Georgia, and the Heisman candidate will miss this week’s game against Missouri. This seemingly came out of nowhere, but it wasn’t long before reports started emerging about what the running back may be getting investigated for:

Hearing the investigation into #UGA star Todd Gurley is for possibly accepting extra benefits for his likeness w memorabilia brokers.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) October 9, 2014

Is this what Feldman’s report is referring to? MAYBE. Seth Emerrson of the Macon Telegraph is reporting the same.

It is correct, person who did AMA claiming to buy autographs from NCAA plyrs did post a while back claiming someone was about to be busted.
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) October 9, 2014

He would not name names, but told us to look at eBay; the number one candidate from his region was Gurley. We posted it here first.
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) October 9, 2014

Here are all the relevant quotes implicating Gurley from Sept 27 (with date stamp). pic.twitter.com/0ruO8zTrGT
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) October 9, 2014

Sorting from highest to lowest price, there are a whole host of signed Todd Gurley items on eBay, but that will often be true for players of Gurley’s stature. For example, there is also a bunch of stuff autographed by Marcus Mariota on eBay, though there are nearly four times as many total items for Gurley.

This happened to Johnny Manziel last year, too. Manziel’s buddy Uncle Nate has already weighed in on Gurley:

It continues to seem dumb that college athletes aren’t allowed to sell their autographs in the first place. The universities benefit a whole hell of a lot from their stars’ likenesses, and one would think a system could be set up relatively easily to enable the players to legally do the same.