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An NFL Viewpoint on College Players Skipping Bowl Games

The MMQB's Peter King answers reader questions about the Giants' offensive line, Brock Osweiler's status with the Texans and the Falcons' playoff chances.

The thing former Miami Hurricanes lineman Eric Winston remembers most about Willis McGahee’s injury in Miami’s 2002 Fiesta Bowl loss wasn’t so much how the star workhorse went down, cut to the ground by diving Ohio State safety Will Allen.

It was waiting for McGahee to get up.

McGahee had emerged from the shadows that fall. After Hurricane teammate Frank Gore was injured in the spring, the redshirt sophomore stepped up to become a superstar, sparking talk, as Winston remembers it, that both he and Miami receiver Andre Johnson could go inside the top 3 or 4 picks of the draft.