COLUMBUS — The Ohio High School Athletic Association’s new policy allowing high school athletes to profit from their name, image, and likeness could face resistance from the state legislature.

While Ohio lawmakers have generally embraced NIL at the college level since 2021 — and more recently passed a bill aiming to protect college athletes from predatory agents — one state legislator is already planning to introduce legislation that would essentially ban OHSAA from implementing the NIL policy approved by its member schools.

Last week, Ohio became the 45th state to approve NIL at the high school level after 447 schools voted in favor of the policy, with 121 voting against it and 247 abstaining.

“I don’t think they really want to do it,” state Rep. Adam Bird (R., Cincinnati) said Monday

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