The story was co-written by Madden NFL 23 used the term

The bonus was directly deposited to the Lawrence's Blockfolio account and Madden 23 coins, Ethereum and Solana."

There's not a thing called"signing bonus" or "signing bonus" when it comes to an endorsement deal. The endorsement contract is all that's needed. The contract is signed in exchange for money or, in the case of Lawrence, you get crypto. While the use of this term in sports is fairly innocuous however, this is where things took a jump. Following the Blockfolio press announcement, USA Today aggregated the news and it's here the confusion began.

The story was co-written by Madden NFL 23 used the term "signing bonus" that was mentioned in the Blockfolio press release. Then, it mixed it up with Lawrence's actual Madden NFL 23 bonuses for signing with the Jaguars in reporting it to be $24.1M, and using Spotrac as source. source."The likely No. one overall selection of the 2021 Madden NFL 23 draft, probably headed to Jacksonville Jaguars Jacksonville Jaguars, has partnered with a worldwide cryptocurrency-based investment app called Blockfolio and will place his bonus in an account with the company."

"According to Spotrac the amount of the signing bonus for this year's No. one choice is $22.630.055." We now have an endorsement agreement with Blockfolio, presumably fairly small in relation to the overall picture it was paid in crypto -- and this week, it's been linked to Lawrence's enormous Madden NFL 23 signing bonus from the league, and misreported that the cash was transferred into cryptocurrency. It's unclear if this was a genuine error, or an attempt at making a story a bit more sexually sexier we're all in the same point: an endorsement agreement with a crypto-related company was paid in cryptocurrency, and that's all there is to it.

Then, on Tuesday someone writing for The Sun Sentinel took information published by Coinjournal, and made the following tweet, mocking that Jaguars Buy Madden 23 coins.