Leaving for the NFL early ?

One of the biggest problems in College football is athletes leaving for the Professional level early. This may sound like it’s not a bad thing but in the long run it really is. Leaving for the Professional level early results in a lot of things such as

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 Not finishing your degree

·              Not being ready mentally and physically

But during this time of athletes that leave early those things aren’t going through their head what’s so ever. The average length of a NFL player’s career is 3.3 years based on NFL Player Association. The career expands to 6 years if you make the roster your rookie season.

Just like anything there are a lot of pros and cons to why athlete leave school early. There is no really emulation on why you make this decision according to sources they say you just have to be in the situation to think about it fully and decide

Pros to staying in school are you are able to have a future after your athletic career because of the fact you have a degree to fall back on. Which makes everything a lot easier in your life if your career doesn’t work out the way you want it too. Epically with the average career length not being longer than 6 years for some people.

There is a lot cases that you could get injured playing your sport, which is huge you end up having a career ending injury or you just choose to have left your sport.  You still have a degree that you can work after that’s over.

Staying in college also teaches maturity , you’re in college four more years which gives you more time to live and learn from your mistakes that you have to go through before moving on to the real world . It makes you smarter you obviously learn more while being on college against leaving college to go play your sport.

But there are also good things to leaving college early if you are that gifted. Such as being able to provide for the family with the contract that will be getting from the team they are signed by. A lot of athletes make the decision to leave early based of their families and their living ways.

Another huge aspect is the fact that staying in college longer can cause a lot more time to have an injury. Staying in college a lot longer can give you a higher chance of injury and of course as a college athlete too don’t get paid so leaving early can be a good thing.

Another thing athletes say is that even though they leave early they can still go back to school after or during their career. During the season the athlete may be busy but a season only last so long, during the off time they could go back to school and get there degree even though they aren’t in school so anymore.  

The number of big name college athletes that left college early but when they got to the NFL didn’t have a great career is very large. With only 32 teams and about 50-60 players on a team in the NFL and about 15,588 SENIORS in college, only 256 of them will actually be drafted into the NFL. It makes the percentage 1.6%.

link to players career length in the NFL after leaving college 

link to pros and cons to college athleses leaving early