
The Bowl Season is injury free.
As the college season comes to an end, there are a lot of teams and high profile prospects getting ready to enjoy the bowl season. The bowl season has its positives, but it also comes with a lot of risk. NFL prospects are risking a lot of money by playing in these basically meaningless games.
Last year, Notre Dame’s Jaylon Smith suffered a devastating knee injury during the bowl game and it cost him. He was projected as a top-10 pick and was the top rated prospect on my big board. The injury cost him to slip to the 2nd round and miss his entire rookie season.
His long-term future is still in question with the problems in his knee not healing as expected.
This year we’ve seen LSU’s Leonard Fournette and Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey elect to sit out their bowl game in order to prepare for the draft. Their decision has created a lot of controversy with supporters on both sides of the fence.
The biggest thing is to keep your fingers crossed that nobody suffers an injury during the bowl season. These kids have worked to hard to have their future jeopardized based on an injury in a meaningless game.