Emotion flowed from the words of North Carolina State wide receiver Kelvin Harmon:
"I have prayed and discussed the path forward with my family, and we have decided that it is time to proceed to the next chapter of my life."
One of two Wolfpack players to skip his school's December trip to the Gator Bowl, his words were echoed across the land. Financial concerns have come to supersede loyalty. Worries about health top a bowl trip.
What seemed unique in 2016 when Stanford's Christian McCaffery and LSU's Leonard Fournette drew the headlines, became routine as the NFL-bound withdrawals approached double figures late last year.