2021 NFL Draft: Why Gregory Rousseau needs the College Football season
By Seth Steere
Gregory Rousseau needs the 2020 season to grow before the 2021 NFL Draft.
Each day that dawns it appears that the college football season may not happen. All the Ivy League schools have decided to shut-down fall sports, with the thought of postponing them until spring if the COVID-19 pandemic is under wraps. Other conferences are doing all they can to help ensure that there will be college football. Both, the Big-10 and the Pac-12 recently announced they will not be playing out-of-conference games in 2020 to help alleviate some of the traveling; this is sure to alter the plans of the 2021 NFL Draft and young players like Gregory Rousseau.
The other three power 5 conferences (SEC, Big-12, and the ACC) have yet to announce whether or not they will cancel out-of-conference games, however, at this point — it seems inevitable. Hopefully, with teams cutting back on travel it can help to stop the spread of COVID within locker rooms and amongst other teams, but nothing is guaranteed at this point.
No football season could have drastic consequences on players who were looking ahead to the NFL Draft after their college careers. If there was no season last year, we probably don’t hear Joe Burrow’s name called until day three of the draft as opposed to being the first pick. Players develop immensely in college football and having it taken away can be detrimental to their growth.