Breaking: Ohio State Football Star Won't Play Against Georgia

The Spun ^ | Dec 5, 2022 | Hunter Hodies

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Ohio State won't have one of its best players for the Peach Bowl against Georgia on Dec. 31.

According to ESPN's Pete Thamel, star wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba has declared for the 2023 NFL Draft and will not play for the Buckeyes again.

"I want to be out there competing with my brothers more than anything," Smith-Njigba told Thamel. "The decision to turn pro was made after I was unable to come back on multiple occasions during the season and the doctors determined I would be unable to participate in the playoffs."

Smith-Njigba has been battling a lingering hamstring issue for this entire season after he came into the season with high expectations.

He injured the hamstring during OSU's season opener against Notre Dame and it just never got back to 100%. He'll finish this season with only five receptions for 43 yards after finishing last season with 95 receptions for 1,606 yards and nine touchdowns.

His focus will now be on getting ready for the NFL Combine in February before the 2023 NFL Draft takes place from Apr. 27-29.

[Glad2bnuts]

Who doesn’t yearn to compete for a championship? To earn the MVP, to excel and leave it all on the field?

THIS GUY.... Quiter and loser are attached to your name Njigba.

What is the name of the Brown feller, who had great talent with a 50 cent head. Oh YEAH, his name was Brown.

[mmichaels1970]

It’s their “pre excuse” for why the Bulldogs will be the living crap out of them in a few weeks.

Oh please....Njigba has been out all year. He wasn't their excuse when they got their asses kicked by Michigan. He won't be their excuse if they lose to Georgia.

And Marvin Harrison Jr. is better than Njigba.

The kid has been hurt all year. I'd argue his injury has definitely hurt his draft stock by several picks, if not an entire round.

Sometimes an injury is just an injury.

[mmichaels1970]

THIS GUY.... Quiter (sic) and loser are attached to your name Njigba.

What did you see on his MRI after the first game of the season to conclude that? He tried coming back a couple of times and didn't make it through the game.

Until I try sprinting out a 40 yard post pattern with a torn hamstring, I'm certainly not going to judge.

It's not like this came as a surprise. He's been out the entire season.

[mmichaels1970]

MAKES zero difference which Ohio St players take the field . GA is going to hand them their ass. BOOK IT.

I remember when Miami once said that.

Go Bucs!

[shotgun]

I guess 5 receptions for 43 yds now qualifies a player as a football star?

And why is this news? The team doctors have not cleared this kid to play, so it’s not like they were missing him much.

Someone needs to have a heart to heart with this kid and tell him his chances of making the NFL are pretty slim, but some kids do make it.

[shotgun]

I’m thinking 5th-7th. He needs to get healthy to even get an invite to the Combine.

[mmichaels1970]

Someone needs to have a heart to heart with this kid and tell him his chances of making the NFL are pretty slim

He’ll be drafted by the end of the second round. Potentially by the end of the first.

Early mocks even with the injury have him going around 15-16th.

I wouldn’t draft him that high. But somebody’s going to and they know a heck of a lot more about talent than me.

[shotgun]

Probably the Texans! Hahahaha

[God luvs America]

His health has absolutely nothing to do with receiving a Combine invitation- zilch. He will receive a combine invite- 1000%. The latest he goes in a weak WR class is 3rd.

[God luvs America]

The school purchases a loss of value policy on players. NIL money does not come close to comparing to an NFL contract.

Oklahoma offered offensive tackle Anton Harrison an NIL deal which would’ve paid him $500K next year. Harrison will be no worse than the 40th pick of the draft and could sneak into the first round. The 40th pick of the 2022 NFL Draft, Boye Mafe, signed a $8.5 million contract with $6.3 million in guaranteed money.

[God luvs America]

“Someone needs to have a heart to heart with this kid and tell him his chances of making the NFL are pretty slim, but some kids do make it.”

Lemme guess- you scout for the Detroit Lions?

[Vaden]

I ask myself that question every day.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

I liked to play football, baseball and racquetball, unfortunately I never excelled, but I still liked to play. So a bunch of us 30 year olds started an intermural league of flag football. On offense I was guarding against a former Oklahoma running back, the ball was snapped and he was by me like I was standing still. What an athlete!

But consider, he was nowhere good enough for the NFL, what gifts God must give these guys. So I like to watch football admiring the athleticism of these guys. How can the NFL quarterbacks just stand there with a 300 pound freight train coming to run him over, deliver a pass while getting creamed, way beyond what I can do.

So I like to watch them play exploiting their gifts, unfortunately the self centered attitudes has destroyed my enjoyment of watching pro football, and now college seems to be following.

That said, there were superstars of college football that I still admire, Jalen Hurts went all out to support the team, he is the only player’s name I would wear on a jersey.