Northwestern quarterback Clayton Thorson suffers knee injury in bowl game Northwestern quarterback Clayton Thorson, an NFL prospect who has said he plans to play out his NCAA eligibility and enter the draft in 2019, suffered what looked like a serious knee injury today in the Music City Bowl against Kentucky. The injury took place after Thorson caught a pass on a trick play. As Thorson ran down the field and attempted to evade a tackle, his knee buckled awkwardly. Kentucky linebacker Jordan Jones, the nearest defender on the play, looked particularly disturbed by what he saw and immediately signaled to the medical staff to come out for Thorson. It was an ugly injury that could make a serious difference to Thorson’s NFL future. The best-case scenario is that he’s able to fully recover, have a good season for Northwestern in 2018 and get drafted in 2019 as he originally planned. But if this is the type of injury that could affect Thorson into next season, he could decide to turn pro now and see if some team will use a late-round pick on him and pay him to rehabilitate his knee at an NFL facility next year. He could also stay at Northwestern but have to sit out 2018 and apply for a medical redshirt to play in college in 2019, which would put his professional ambitions off to 2020. As players with NFL ambitions increasingly decide to skip bowl games, injuries like Thorson’s make that an easy decision to understand.
After ugly bowl loss, Sam Darnold says he’s undecided on the NFL draft If Friday night’s Cotton Bowl was the last game of Sam Darnold’s college career, it was an inauspicious ending. Darnold, the USC quarterback viewed as a potential first overall pick in the NFL draft, threw a pick-six and lost two fumbles in a 24-7 loss to Ohio State. He said after the game that he hasn’t yet decided whether to turn pro. ”Right now I think I’m really just focused on hanging out with my teammates for the next couple of days, really just saying bye to the seniors because they put together such a great season.’’ he said. “It’s tough. I’ll look at everything and make my decision after that.’’ If Darnold had been permitted to turn pro a year ago, he might have been the first overall pick in the 2017 NFL draft. But Darnold didn’t play as well this year, and that may have hurt his draft stock. Still, Darnold is now three years out of high school, which means he satisfies the NFL’s requirements to be draft eligible. It would be a major surprise if he doesn’t announce next month that he’s turning pro.
At the risk of coming off as a racist . . . Did anyone else notice the disparity in ethnicicity between Wisconsin and Miami last night?
beats me. why does miami get a freaking home bowl game? all these bowls and they get a home game? lame.
You mean like Georgia playing for a National Championship in Atlanta? (That's just the way different bowl games and their affiliated conferences work. How many times did Southern Cal have a home game in the Rose Bowl?)
Alabama shuts down Clemson, sets up all-SEC title game NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The rubber match of the Alabama-Clemson trilogy was a total dud compared to the teams' previous two meetings. Except to the Crimson Tide defense, which will remember it as a thing of beauty. In a game where every yard was a struggle, the `Bama defenders took matters into their own hands, scoring a pair of touchdowns just 13 seconds apart in the third quarter to turn an offensive slog into a 24-6 rout of defending national champion Clemson in the Sugar Bowl semifinal game Monday night.
no bc the national title game was pre-determined to be in atlanta and their new stadium. the bowl committee could've put miami in several bowls and none a freaking home game. the national title game is not on georgia's campus or their home stadium. the orange bowl is where miami u plays. a little different. usc played in the rose bowl as part of the pac 12 conference as the rose bowl is big 12 vs pac 12. not the same thing.
