More than a dozen college football players have already said they will skip their team's bowl game to prepare for the NFL draft.
And that's perfectly fine.
It's not an epidemic or any sort of problem that needs to be fixed—no matter how many old codgers lament the loss of the good ol' days when players walked uphill in the snow both ways for the privilege of appearing in bowl games.
Christian McCaffrey and Leonard Fournette took a lot of criticism for pioneering that career path two years ago. But once everyone came down from their "entitled millennials!