Justin Fields offers his opinion about the 2020 college football season

Justin Fields shares his support of there being a college football season.

Justin Fields let it be known to the world how he feels about a 2020 college football season.

With so many college football players joining the #WeWantToPlay movement in a last-ditch effort to save their season, the Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback tweeted out on Sunday night, “There’s been too much work put in!! #WeWantToPlay”

Fields is projected to be the No. 2 overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft behind only Clemson Tigers quarterback Trevor Lawrence, who has shared his opinions about his desire to play this fall all weekend with his junior season being threatened. It is expected the Big Ten Conference, the conference Fields plays in at Ohio State, will pull the plug on the 2020 college football season.

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Though the people in charge of this decision may have already made up their minds, it’s hard to imagine one college football player’s voice being enough to prevent an inevitable wave from crashing down. Once the MAC decided to cancel its season, someone in the Power 5, probably the Big Ten, was going to cancel its season and try to guilt the other conferences into following them.

Fields doesn’t have to play another down in college football to ensure his draft status. He will be playing for some team like the Carolina Panthers or the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2021. However, you only get to be a college student once and you only get to be the big man on campus once. Fields has only spent one season in Columbus after transferring from Georgia. That may be all she wrote.

What is especially troubling about canceling fall sports across the board is it will have massive primary, secondary, tertiary and ancillary effects associated with it. If college athletics don’t happen in the United States for 18 months, the NCAA will collapse. Maybe that’s not a bad thing, but thousands upon thousands of kids won’t have an opportunity at getting a college education.

Title IX will be impacted, as women’s sports are not the revenue producers of football and men’s basketball. Losing out on a season will have devastating effects on the athletes’ livelihoods. Being an athlete is an identifier for them, and now that’s being ripped away from them. How sure are we that they’ll be better off staying home with who knows what than safely on a college campus?

It’s a decision no one wants to make, but Fields is doing his part to keep college football alive.

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