Ole Miss suffers another NFL Draft opt-out ahead of LSU game
Shortly after Ole Miss wide receiver Elijah Moore announced that he would not play in the Rebels’ final game of the regular season against LSU—and their bowl game, if the team so chooses to participate in one—to prepare for the NFL Draft, a 2nd key member of the offense has chosen to do the same.
In a Twitter post on Thursday evening, tight end Kenny Yeboah revealed that he would not play against the Tigers and instead begin preparations for the draft as well.
“My time at Ole Miss was one that I will never forget,” Yeboah said in a statement. “I am so blessed to have such a great fan base during my one year at Ole Miss. This by far was my favorite year of college.”
A transfer from Temple, Yeboah made 27 catches for 524 yards and 6 touchdowns in his lone season with the Rebels. At Temple, he combined for 32 catches, 387 yards and 6 touchdowns in 2018 and 2019, including 5 in his redshirt junior year of 2019. He then decided to enter the transfer portal, finding a home in Oxford with 1st-year head coach Lane Kiffin.
It is called quitting you snowflake. In September it would have been an opt out.
You and I are on same page. As I was reading, just shaking my head, “how can you do that to your team after coming this far?” Granted, I have never been in that position, upcoming money, but just can’t grasp this one
And the spiraling of CFB down the drain continues.
Yep! Georgia is another one that have lost players to opt out!
Oh I meant to say transfer out.
Get use to this crap. College football is morphing into the NFL development league and soon the final shot to the heart of the fake “student athlete” misnomer. Players opting out, boycotting, demanding removal of statues, songs, mascots or they will refuse to play. Now who is running the universities. But we are going to be a better society for it. Oop..gotta go board up my store front before the next peaceful demonstration.
Absolutely absurd the NFL pays $0 for minor leagues or development
Morphing into?? That’s what college football is. You as a Bama fan should fully understand that. Why can people in any other job make business decisions but these kids can’t? Because they need to think about the “purity of the game”?
College football has been dirty for a long time and good for these kids for investing in their futures.
^^This^^
An old fashioned idea but I think they are being selfish. The team works to have a season and allows them to showcase their talent. Now that they think they have reached their goal they quit on those same teammates that sacrificed for them.
Or maybe they’ll help out a lot more people with the extra millions they make by not getting hurt. Who’s to judge??
It’s all about me. No regard for their University, coaches, teammates, or fans.
Or is it the opposite? If they get a career ending injury, are the university, fans, coaches, and teammates going to pay them the millions they would’ve lost out on?? If they get a simple injury that hurts their draft stock, are the university, fans, teammates, and coaches going to pay them the hundreds of thousands they lose out on because they drop some spots in the draft??
It may be a hobby for you but it’s a career for these kids, quit acting like they owe anyone anything.
Fans are so entitled in how they perceive what a college student “should do for them.” What a wild thought to have.
Spot on
Add me to those who see it as one thing and one thing only; quitting. As Tidefan 8×5 says, it would have been an opt-out before the season began. I know this; not a dang one of these sissies ever put on a REAL uniform (and you know what I mean).
After last year’s embarrassment at Mississippi State, Moore was extremely lucky Kiffin gave him a second chance this season. His team mates helped make him a star, and this is how he repays them. College football is becoming less fun game by game. Sad.
I have never heard of a coach kicking a player off the team for a single unsportsmanlike penalty. Most teams would have trouble fielding a team if they did