Under and upperclassmen declaring for the NFL Draft and deciding to skip their respective program’s bowl game is nothing new across the college football landscape. At the conclusion of each of the last several seasons, a handful of the top players have decided that the risk that comes with playing in a glorified exhibition game (aka a bowl game) isn’t worth damaging a potential career in the NFL. For Louisville football, they’ll feel the impact of that trend first hand this year.
I wrote about the decision that was ahead of Mekhi Becton a few weeks back in a piece about the month of December – identifying five key things on the horizon that could ultimately impact the future of the Cardinals.