Former NFL agent Josh Luchs decertified after admitting to paying college players

Josh Luchs, whose explosive tell-all article “Confessions of an agent” was published on SportsIllustrated.com on Oct. 12, was recently decertified by the NFL Players Association after admitting to paying more than 30 college players before their NCAA eligibility had ended.

Luchs’ career in the NFL spanned more than 20 years, and during that time, he went from a ball boy with the Oakland Raiders to a powerful agent in Gary Wichard’s Pro Tect Management firm.

From the very beginning, Luchs had a bit of a different route than your typical college-educated agent. Indeed, in his summers working for the…