COLUMBUS, Ohio — He hasn’t played a snap in an actual game in more than five months, but if you thought that was going to stop Cardale Jones from being one of the central focuses of the upcoming NFL draft, you must not have paid much attention to the former Ohio State quarterback’s college career.
After flipping the script on his narrative, becoming a national championship-winning quarterback, turning down one opportunity to enter the NFL draft and becoming one of the most polarizing prospects in the next, the conversation about Jones has come full circle and back to the first subject that landed him in the public spotlight four years ago: School.
That’s because while speaking to Marla Ridenour of the Akron Beacon Journal about Jones’ pro prospects, Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer seemingly suggested that Jones’ academic responsibilities may have held him back during his time in Columbus:
A really good skill set, intellectual, very smart, wasn’t necessarily very good at school. I wonder if that kind of set him back a little bit. That’s one difference between pro and college — now he doesn’t have to worry about classes and going to school and all that stuff. He can focus completely on football.
So the quarterback who first burst into the public’s consciousness by tweeting he wasn’t at Ohio State to “play school” and that “classes are pointless” during his freshman season in 2012 may not have paid as much attention to his academics as…
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