re: Hypothetically, you’re a #1 pick at your position ...

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uote: You’re agent has already told ya quote: College student Their seems to be problem here

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Not sure exactly how that works but I think a college player who is available/eligible for the NFL draft can confer with a potential agent/lawyer for draft advice even if the player has not signed a contract with said agent. I also could be wrong.

I would definitely play. Not playing would never even enter my mind. I also wouldn't have an agent.

Like others have pointed out, if you have that other mentality why play any games once your draft eligible and your team is out of playoff contention?

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Like others have pointed out, if you have that other mentality why play any games once your draft eligible and your team is out of playoff contention?

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Players should consider sitting out once they get to a point where their draft projection is not at risk of dropping by sitting out, and they don't think they could raise their draft projection by continuing to play.

There are a couple of angles to this:

- I would no doubt sit out if I were a certain first- or second-round pick; the potential economic value you'd be giving up at that point is too high

- On the flip side, NFL scouts have started to pay attention to (and have ascertained an NFL performance correlation with) things like leadership and passion for the sport

- Jaylon Smith might be the scare story, but he also loves to play the sport and has stated outright that he wouldn't change his decision; I don't think it's a coincidence that when the chips were down, a kid with his will to play and love of the sport managed to get things back on track, and I think his willingness to play even for an exhibition is an (admittedly, subjective) indicator of that

- Given that, there is a marginal cost versus marginal benefit trade off for bowl games for many players, and I think the trade off starts getting negative a lot more quickly than many here might suppose - a potential third or fourth round pick hasn't demonstrated the requisite physical skill to legitimately step away to justify the potential economic cost in my eyes, and I'd be questioning a kid's commitment and economic value-add to my franchise if he were a borderline third-rounder and decided to sit

- Starting at the 80th to 100th pick or so, you can improve your stock as much as hurt it in an exhibition game, including bowl games

- A kid playing for a playoff team that decided to sit would go off my board immediately, no questions asked; how badly does that kid really want to win?

They almost never pay out the way a common sense reading would indicate. The insurance policies aren’t nearly as good as people think which is why more guys are sitting out.

You're seeing the beginning of the end of major college football and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Let the mercenaries who only give a shite about themselves go to a G League where they dont have to pretend to care about being a college student. Let everybody else play in 25,000 seat stadiums in front of parents, girlfriends, and alumni. I'm getting pretty tired of corporatized college athletics anyway.

I might sit out.

But Alabama players don't do that. High character elite players play at Alabama.

See my post above yours. If they don't give a shite, there's no reason for us to give a shite, and the whole thing falls apart. The NFL will have killed the golden goose and they'll have to start paying for their own farm system.