COLUMBIA, MO. • Missouri tight end Albert Okwuegbunam traveled to Indianapolis during the NFL Combine earlier this month, but not in the role Mizzou fans feared this offseason. He participated in the Elite Football Symposium, a program the NCAA launched two years ago for the country’s top NFL prospects who are staying in college for at least another year.
Okwuegbunam, along with high-profile players like Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm, spent three days at the NCAA headquarters for a crash course on life as an elite NFL prospect, learning about agents, contracts, taxes and all the other parts of life that will become reality once their college careers are complete.