The junior running back announced on Twitter that he will not be playing in the Sun Bowl so that he can begin to prepare for the National Football League draft.
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McCaffrey’s teammates. In announcing he would sit out, McCaffrey thanked his teammates for their “100% support”.
On Dec. 7, McCaffrey announced he’d be skipping his senior season to go to the NFL.
As the college bowl season gets underway, NFL Draft fans and NFL scouts are getting word that star running backs and one-time Heisman candidates Leonard Fournette of LSU and Christian McCaffrey of Stanford are skipping their teams’ respective bowl games. But McCaffrey is healthy. He had 129 yards and a touchdown against Notre Dame, when McCaffrey was out.
Stanford RB Christian McCaffrey found the going slow Sept.30 against Washington, gaining 49 yards on 12 carries and 30 yards from five receptions. I don’t necessarily agree. Possible first-round pick QB Mitch Trubisky is still playing for North Carolina.
“But some people think differently”, McCray said. The coaches have already earned their money, and are bowing out on their team.
Kill had been an associate athletics director for football administration at Kansas State before taking the Rutgers job.
It’s a rite of winter. Yes, it might not stop all of these players or coaches from leaving, but it could hinder them from pursuing the idea and halt this new trend. Why would players be inoculated from such behavior? But so did Matt Rhule and Willie Taggart and Tom Herman. “But (McCaffrey) was a very unique player.Very talented young guy, that made great cuts and has great vision”. Isn’t it better to get a sense for that in a game that doesn’t count than the 2017 regular season?
That doesn’t make them selfish. If all the college stars are going to be skipping “meaningless games” in December then the Browns and Jaguars might as well stop drafting – because all they do is playing meaningless games in December.
More than anything, Huard sees these decisions as setting a precedent. Walker was injured, coaches implied that Walker was slacking, not wanting to risk his pro potential, and it became quite messy.
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How many times did you hear the phrase “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander” when growing up? He said offensive players take more hits. They are not necessarily buying into the team-is-everything mentality. Yet they can mean everything in the context of fulfilling all that a college scholarship promised. They come by it honest.
