MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- This was a new Jabrill Peppers, raw, uncut and in pain.
His left leg hurt, the hamstring injury that kept him out of Friday's 33-32 Orange Bowl loss to Florida State.
But as he sat at his Hard Rock Stadium locker in full sweats, as his teammates changed out of their uniforms around him, Michigan's Heisman Trophy finalist cried.
"The fact we couldn't send these seniors out the right way, the fact that I couldn't play, that (stuff) just hurt," he said, wiping away tears and sniffling through his comments.