Three tenths of a point separate the top two linemen in college football

RALLYFUEL TEAM • AUGUST 5, 2026 • 7 MIN READ

We pulled the NIL Index for eleven offensive linemen across Ohio State, Texas, Georgia, Indiana and Notre Dame.

Six of them sit at zero in Fan Demand. Not low. Zero.

That column is a quarter of the NIL Index, and at this position most of it is still open. Which makes the offensive line the easiest board in college football to move.

The board

The four components of the NIL Index are published in full, and each one is defined in our NIL glossary.

Every NIL Index figure above reproduces from those weights. Hinzman: 35(.35) + 43(.20) + 63(.20) + 15(.25) = 37.2. Six of the eleven land exactly, the other five within a tenth.

1. The reach columns are nearly identical. The last one is not.

Sort this board by audience and it barely moves.

NIL Visibility runs from 36 to 48 across all eleven. Twelve points, top to bottom, at a fifth of the weighting. Social Power runs from 41 to 63.

Fan Demand runs from 0 to 15, and ten of those fifteen points separate the top two from everyone else.

That is the column doing the work here, and it is the only one of the four that does not come from a stat sheet, a follower count or a brand valuation. It comes from the platform. Searches, views, fuels. What fans actually do.

At this position, there is plenty of room left in it.

2. The widest reach on the board belongs to a lineman sitting third

Goosby carries a Visibility of 48. That is the highest figure of any lineman we track, higher than both Buckeyes above him and higher than every Longhorn beside him.

He grades out level with the board leader in the football column, at 35 apiece.

He finishes 5.3 points back.

The gap is thirteen points of Social Power and an empty Fan Demand against a 15. Two columns that are still open to him, and a season in the biggest games on the schedule to fill them.

Drew Bobo is the same story a place lower. His Social Power of 57 is the second highest here, ahead of everyone except Hinzman. He anchors the middle of a Georgia line. He sits fourth, with one column still empty.

3. Two teammates, three tenths apart

Siereveld’s 38 is the top figure in the football column across all eleven linemen. He sits three tenths of a point behind his own teammate.

He and Hinzman are teammates. They block for the same quarterback, on the same line, in front of the same crowd, in the same games. Their Visibility figures are two points apart and their Fan Demand is identical.

What separates them is five points of Social Power, worth exactly one point of composite.

Two linemen on one offensive line, and three tenths of a point between them. This is a board where very small things decide the order.

4. Indiana shows where the attention goes

Here is the part that surprised us.

Indiana sits second on the RallyFuel schools leaderboard, at $470 in verified NIL value across 82 active fans. That is one of the deepest engaged fanbases on the entire platform. Those fans are here, and they are backing people.

Drew Evans, a senior on Indiana’s offensive line, has a Fan Demand of zero.

Meanwhile Charlie Becker, an Indiana receiver, carries a Fan Demand of 40. That is the highest figure on our wide receiver board, and the reason he ranks third overall there ahead of a receiver at Alabama with a bigger audience and a better season.

Same school, same fans, and one of the strongest Fan Demand figures we have recorded anywhere.

That is the finding in one program. Indiana fans are here and they are backing people. Receivers are simply the players a fanbase finds first, at every school. The linemen are on the same roster, one click away.

5. Ohio State shows what a filled in column looks like

The Buckeyes lead our schools page outright: 429 Fire Ups, 120 fans, #1 in Fan Power. No program on RallyFuel has more people firing up.

Fan Power is the school ranking, and we publish what goes into it: fans, Fire Ups, Rally Pit activity and posts. Fan Demand is the athlete version, one of the four components of the NIL Index. They are different numbers built from the same habit, which is fans showing up for a name.

That shows up here. Hinzman and Siereveld are first and second, and every Buckeye lineman we track registers in a column built from searches, views and fuels.

It is a useful illustration of scale. Ohio State’s linemen are not carrying huge Fan Demand figures. The highest on this board is 15 out of a possible 40. That is what the top of the offensive line looks like right now, and it means the distance between first and unranked at this position is smaller than anywhere else on the site.

6. Why this position needs a platform like this one

Our top eleven linemen top out at 37.2. Our wide receiver board tops out at 54.3, and its lowest NIL Index figure belongs to a freshman who has never caught a college pass, at 29.4. Nine of eleven linemen here fall below that.

Consider what the rest of the sport gives them to work with.

A receiver has a yardage leaderboard. A quarterback has a passer rating, a completion percentage and roughly three dozen coaches and scouts willing to rank all 138 starters in the country. An offensive lineman has none of that. No counting stat accumulates in his name. No highlight travels. The brand valuations that drive NIL Visibility are built on the same exposure he never gets, which is why every lineman on this board clusters inside twelve points of one another in that column while receivers run to 85.

Trevor Goosby starts at left tackle for Texas in two of the biggest games on the fall schedule. The traditional machinery of college football has almost nothing to say about what that is worth.

Fan Demand is the one column in the system that does not depend on any of it. It does not need a stat line, a broadcast window or a brand deal. It needs people who know the position matters and are willing to say so.

That is the whole idea. Fans watch the line. Fans know which tackle held up on third down and which one moved somebody off the ball in short yardage. There has never been a place to put that knowledge, and it has never counted for anything.

Here it counts for a quarter of the NIL Index.

7. Week 1 puts the board almost exactly upside down

Here is where all eleven open the season.

The lineman ranked eleventh has the biggest stage of the opening week, and nothing else is close.

Will Black opens at Lambeau Field on Sunday night on NBC and Peacock, in a window with almost nothing beside it. The resale floor is $357, the highest of the entire first week. Illinois is next at $207, then Clemson at LSU at $199. It is also the only one of these five games with a spread inside three touchdowns, which means a true freshman ranked last on this board plays the most competitive and most watched game any of our linemen will see in September.

The top of the board draws the softest assignment on it. Ohio State opens against Ball State as a fifty and a half point favorite, the largest number anywhere in Week 1. Five of our eleven are in that game, including first, second, eighth, ninth and tenth. Indiana at forty one and a half and Texas at thirty and a half are not much different. Read the counting statistics from all three carefully, because starters may not see a fourth quarter.

And Drew Bobo, fourth on this board with the second strongest social profile in the group, opens on streaming. Georgia hosts Tennessee State on SECN+ with a $51 floor, the quietest window of the five.

So the opening Saturday hands the most exposure to the lineman with the least standing and the least exposure to several of the players near the top. That is worth watching, because Visibility and Social Power move on nights like Black’s, and neither one is settled at this position.

Learn More About the NIL Landscape

Name, Image and Likeness now shapes college football as much as recruiting or the portal does, and the offensive line is where you can see the shape of it most clearly.

Twelve points of Visibility separate the lineman with the widest reach in the country from the narrowest. Fan Demand is a quarter of the NIL Index, and on this board most of it is still open.

Six of eleven linemen have not registered in it at all, including a left tackle at Texas with the widest reach we measure and a center at Georgia with the second strongest social profile here. Every one of the eleven is still unfueled.