In December, one of the biggest stories in the college football world involved players sitting out their bowl games. Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey and LSU’s Leonard Fournette were both in the headlines for their decisions to skip their teams’ non-playoff bowl games and avoid the risk of the injury prior to the NFL Draft.

Former Michigan TE Jake Butt was not as nationally a high-profile player as McCaffrey or Fournette, but he was considered by many to be a future first-round pick. That was until he tore his right ACL in the Orange Bowl against Florida State. At Michigan’s pro day, Butt talked about the bowl game injury and its impact on his professional career.

While some might expect him to say he wished he had followed the lead of McCaffrey and Fournette, Butt instead said his injury should be used as an example for why college football players deserve to be paid.

“I should be the example of why college athletes should be getting paid in college or why I can’t use my name to benefit off my likeness in college,” Butt said after Michigan’s Pro Day on Friday, per ESPN’s Michael Rothstein.

“Why can I see ‘I Like Jake Butt and I Cannot Lie,’ I see those shirts and I’m living paycheck-to-paycheck in college. Who knows? Heaven forbid something happens in the NFL, can I really benefit off of it when it was at the most? No, I can’t.”

It’s not hard to see Butt’s point. He was famous to benefit from his name and likeness in college, but could not due to amateur status. The torn ACL has likely taken him out of the first round, which impacts the guaranteed money he will take home on his first contract.

One possibility Butt does not talk about is the ability to take out an insurance policy, which Fournette’s family did last year.