Considering our bowl winning percentage over history, you could say several have, whether they were in uniform or not.

Looks like players sitting out the bowls that don't mean anything is becoming more and more the new normal.

As long as it is only bowls that don't mean anything, is a non issue in my opinion. Isn't affecting the health of the college game whatsoever, and the NFL teams clearly don't knock a kid for skipping a bowl game. That isn't going to affect their draft stock.

Now if players ever start sitting out playoff games to prepare for draft and avoid risk of getting hurt, that would of course be an entirely different matter.

Do Kyle Allen & Kyler Murray count? They did in the same year

I don't see what the issue is here other than a bunch of selfish old ****s here want him to risk injury in a completely meaningless game a few months before he is set to accomplish his life goal. All for a slightly better defensive performance against ****in Okie state, who has their best two offensive players missing the game.

Hustle'n for NFL pumpkin? I think it is selfish for kids to abandon their teammates. But pretty normal for attitudes today.

It's something that is widely accepted now.
Years ago nobody did this , Players would play the bowl game.

I'm completely torn on the issue but seeing how widely it's accepted and the me me me attitide imof younger generations... guaranteed in near future you will see prospects sitting out half their senior season to avoid injury.
Once their team loses a few games they will sit rest year.

That's what's next

I think if the leave after their junior year and they DO get a contract in the NFL, they should have to pay their scholarship back. I understand avoiding injury and draft value but they don't worry to much about it when they are being trained, fed and taken care of by the school to help them get the big contract.

So what is the signing day for? Just another attention ***** ceremony? He signed on to play so play. If he doesn't he broke his deal end of story.

Your attitude about the free education an athlete receives shows how ignorant and selfish you really are. We have a whole political party wanting to forgive trillions in debt due to people trying to get what he could get for free. But yes go ahead and discount its value as it isn't that big of a deal to you.

Do you really believe he cares what you or I say? Talk about self absorbed. Don't think he cares what i think, and pretty sure he doesn't feel more secure about his choice because you gave him a pass. Carry on talking like you are his friend.

Keep it up as we wouldn't expect some to understand what a mans word means. Glad I don't have to do business with you as you clearly don't believe a mans word or signature mean much of anything.

For the record I hope he has a great pro career. I do appreciate what he did here and how he played. I hope he has a wonderful family and a long prosperous life. Still don't agree with him backing out of a deal when his future even if injured is probably better than most anybodies on this site.