It would be indecorous for the quarterback of an aspiring championship team to walk off the field at halftime, so Justin Fields did what he could to muster a jog. Each step delivered a jolt, but he continued, because 20 minutes of rest beckoned from the Ohio State locker room no matter how much pain the journey might contain. There had been six minutes left in the first half of the College Football Playoff semifinal between the Buckeyes and Clemson when Fields dashed past the line of scrimmage toward the first-down marker. He nearly made it, but instead was felled by an unplanned encounter with the top of linebacker James Skalski’s orange helmet. It seared into his right ribcage, all but leaving a paw logo tattooed on his torso. Skalski, appropriately, was flagged for targeting and ejected from his second consecutive CFP game. Fields remained prone on the turf longer than…
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