[82lsju]

[quote author=JPRI link=topic=16303.msg182965#msg182965 date=1482160499]
Geez, what are we going to have next, players deciding midway through the season that they want to enter the NFL draft and sitting out the rest of it?

It has already happened. Charles Walker (Oklahoma DL) quit the team mid-November of this year with two regular season games remaining in order to prepare for the draft.
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yes but is was unclear if Walker would be cleared to play again this year.

Oklahoma defensive lineman Charles Walker, a redshirt junior, has told OU coach Bob Stoops that he is leaving the Sooners program to prepare for the 2017 NFL Draft, according to NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport.

Oklahoma has two regular-season games remaining against West Virginia and rival Oklahoma State, but Walker has been out of the lineup for more than a month due to a concussion. It's unclear whether Walker would have been available for either of those games, or the postseason. But Sooners defensive coordinator Mike Stoops left only one interpretation for how he viewed the decision.

"Quitting on your teammates is hard to take as a coach," Stoops said, according to The Oklahoman.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000...-for-draft

[82lsju]

[quote author=JPRI link=topic=16303.msg182965#msg182965 date=1482160499]
Geez, what are we going to have next, players deciding midway through the season that they want to enter the NFL draft and sitting out the rest of it?

It has already happened. Charles Walker (Oklahoma DL) quit the team mid-November of this year with two regular season games remaining in order to prepare for the draft.
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yes but is was unclear if Walker would be cleared to play again this year.

Oklahoma defensive lineman Charles Walker, a redshirt junior, has told OU coach Bob Stoops that he is leaving the Sooners program to prepare for the 2017 NFL Draft, according to NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport.

Oklahoma has two regular-season games remaining against West Virginia and rival Oklahoma State, but Walker has been out of the lineup for more than a month due to a concussion. It's unclear whether Walker would have been available for either of those games, or the postseason. But Sooners defensive coordinator Mike Stoops left only one interpretation for how he viewed the decision.

"Quitting on your teammates is hard to take as a coach," Stoops said, according to The Oklahoman.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000...-for-draft