Multiple agents told Ben Standig of The Athletic they believe college football players with hopes for NFL careers will not play this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has already caused multiple conferences to cancel nonconference games.
"If this [COVID-19] really continues down the path that I think it's going down, there is a very likely chance that there's going to be some high-profile kids signing with agents in the next 60 days," one agent told Standig. "They're gonna bail."
"I mean, I'm recruiting some high-end kids," another agent said. "I talked to probably four of them last night, and they all echoed the same thing.