UCLA’s injured LB Myles Jack drops out, heads to NFL

He also was a finalist for the Paul Hornung Award as college football’s most versatile player following his freshman season. “At least I do”. Maybe in later rounds you go, “hey, we’ll take a flier on this guy.’ But there’s no such thing as an NFL GM who says, ‘hey, we’ll take a flier on a first-rounder”.

The development comes as a surprise after Jack, a junior, suffered a torn anterior meniscus during a September practice and was declared out for the rest of the season. Jack purchased the insurance policy in the spring of 2014, which covers his “loss of value” only in the case of injury, for a premium reportedly in the neighborhood of ,000. While not technically incorrect, this narrative takes Mora’s remarks out of context and makes his opinion as much of a story as Jack’s decision to leave.

It’s a disappointing development for the Bruins, but it’s the best move for Jack.

Mora said, “When you only play in three games, and that’s all the tape they have on you your junior year, I’ve been in 25 draft rooms and I’ve never seen a guy taken off that”.

“Mora lauded Jack as “a tremendous football player and tremendous athlete,” but added, “I think it is very risky to do this.

Mora has known Jack since he was 12 years old and said he maintains a close, personal relationship with him, his mother and younger brother. “Never. I worry about that for him. But I’m definitely glad I made the decision”. It kinda made it very hard for me to get to class, so that was an issue. The Georgia running back tore his ACL in November, left school for the 2015 NFL Draft and was drafted 10th overall by the St. Louis Rams despite not being 100-percent healthy.

McKinley has confidence UCLA can use the next few days to overcome the absence of its top three defenders and regroup.

“So if Jack was a top-10 pick prior to the injury, where will he land now post-injury?”

“He did about everything for them”, Graham said. Moreau and Jack were both going to be gone for the year, and Jack has since also chose to drop out. I hope it all works out the way he plans for it to work out, I really do.”Jack could need six months to recover fully from his injury and subsequent surgery. He’s a great coach. “When I filed the papers, the lady kept reiterating that I can always come back”, he said. “But right now I want to chase my dream”.