Trey Sermon knew he was hurt after landing on his shoulder on the first play from scrimmage of the national championship game, but he didn’t want to come off the field.
So Sermon stayed in the game for one more play, on which Justin Fields threw a pass in his direction. But before that play was even over, Sermon was grabbing his collarbone in pain with his left arm hanging at his side, forcing him to come out of the game.
Sermon dislocated his SC joint, which connects the collarbone to the sternum, when he was driven into the ground by multiple Alabama defenders at the end of a 2-yard run on that first play.