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Ezekiel Elliott isn’t a fan of players skipping bowls to prepare for the draft
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Ezekiel Elliott ran wild in last year’s Fiesta Bowl.
It wasn’t the College Football Playoff, but he still used it as one last hurrah at Ohio State. In that same game, Notre Dame linebacker Jaylon Smith suffered two ligament years in his knee and lost out on millions of dollars because of it.
On Monday, Christian McCaffrey announced that he’d be skipping the Sun Bowl to prepare for the NFL draft. Leonard Fournette did the same thing last week.
Elliott didn’t approve of that decision:
All these young guys deciding to skip their bowl games 🤔.I would do anything to play one more time with my brothers in that scarlet and gray
— Ezekiel Elliott (@EzekielElliott) December 19, 2016
One last time to honor your university and one last chance to play with your boys who will be your brothers for life.
— Ezekiel Elliott (@EzekielElliott) December 19, 2016
And there is a difference between not coming back for your last year and not finishing your last season.
— Ezekiel Elliott (@EzekielElliott) December 19, 2016
For what it’s worth, Elliott played in New Year’s Six games during his college career. Neither Fournette nor McCaffrey will play in a New Year’s Six game this postseason.
Would that change Elliott’s mind?
Who knows, but from the look of it, he doesn’t seem to be a believer in protecting against injury because of the NFL draft.
Connor O'Gara is the senior national columnist for Saturday Tradition. He's a member of the Football Writers Association of America. After spending his entire life living in B1G country, he moved to the South in 2015.