USA TODAY
It would have been impossible to watch Tua Tagovailoa in an Alabama uniform next season without both a guilty conscience and a sense of dread.
The stakes for someone of such prodigious talent were simply too high. The risks to his future, while present for all college football players, were exponentially more obvious given the serious hip injury he suffered in November.
So while Tagovailoa’s decision to enter the NFL draft was the right one for him, it was also the right one for the rest of us who watch college football.