My son recently sent me this tweet from someone named Trey Rowland: "ordered the number 5 at Jimmy John's and now I have a voicemail from Jayden Daniels' lawyer." I responded that I didn't get the joke. He then told me that Daniels's lawyer, Adam Kenner, had sent a cease-and-desist letter to LSU, demanding that the school not ******* ign the number 5 (the number Daniels wore while winning the Heisman in his final season at LSU) to sophomore cornerback DJ Pickett. I was intrigued, and decided to investigate.
With all due respect to Kenner, this is a legal fumble of epic proportions (I abide by the longstanding rule that requires me to use puns whenever I write about sports).
I got a copy of the letter, and it has more holes than the Bengals' offensive line (see above). Interestingly, the letter does not actually mention the number. It purports to address LSU's use of Daniels' "name, image and likeness," or "NIL." It may be that LSU is using Daniels' name or image in some fashion, but all the reporting I've seen indicates it is a direct response to the ******* ignment of Daniels' old number.
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Even though a lawyer wrote the letter, it gets to the point quickly. It states in the second paragraph "[w]e have been informed that LSU...continues to use Mr. Daniels' NIL notwithstanding the expiration of the contractual period during which LSU was authorized to do so." So we can presume that Daniels' theory is that the number 5 is part of Daniels' NIL.

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