Before Terrence Holt was an NFL player for the Detroit Lions, he was a star student athlete for the N.C. State Wolfpack football team. And he remembers times that he wished there weren’t rules against him getting a job to make a little money for extra expenses on campus.

So it also irks him that star players in college football, like Texas quarterback Johnny Manziel, are not allowed to receive compensation from jersey sales and other items that use the player’s likeness.

“Because of their…