Summarize and humanize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in EnglishFormer Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava announced Sunday that he has committed to UCLA.Iamaleava and the Volunteers parted ways after he missed practice on April 11 amid an attempted renegotiation of his name, image and likeness contract. He officially entered the transfer portal on Wednesday, the first day of the spring window, and was expected to land at UCLA, a source briefed on the process told The Athletic on Wednesday.“My journey at UT has come to an end,” Iamaleava wrote in an Instagram post. “This decision was incredibly difficult, and truthfully, not something I expected to make this soon. But I trust God’s timing, and I believe He’s leading me where I need to be.“Even though, this chapter is ending, a new chapter has begun and I am committed to UCLA!”
It’s unclear how much Iamaleava will make at UCLA. He was slated to make $2.2 million in the last of a four-year, $8 million contract he signed with a Tennessee NIL collective in his senior year of high school. He was reportedly asking for $4 million, which is around the top of the quarterback market, but Tennessee rebuffed that number and no meaningful negotiations materialized, according to a source briefed on the process.“I’m proud of the stand we took as a university,” former Tennessee coach and athletic director Phillip Fulmer told The Athletic last week.This story will be updated. More to come.(Photo: Johnnie Izquierdo / Getty Images)
