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Ole Miss quarterback Matt Corral exits Allstate Sugar Bowl early with injury

Wade-Peeryby:Wade Peery•01/01/22
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Ole Miss quarterback Matt Corral, expected to be one of the top draft picks in the 2022 NFL Draft, limped off the field with trainers late in the first quarter of the Allstate Sugar Bowl on Saturday night. He injured his leg and it didn’t look good.

Below is the clip of the play when he was injured.

He was then carted off to the locker room where he was treated by the medical staff. He got X-rays on the injured leg. It’s not an easy sight for college football fans across the country to look at. The severity of the injury was unknown.

It’s quite a shame for a player who opted to play in the bowl game, despite many players across college football opting out the past few years to preserve their draft stock. It’s a brutal reminder of just how unforgiving the game of football can be at times.

Matt Corral won the Heisman Fan vote for the Heisman Trophy

While he didn’t come close to winning the real Heisman Trophy, college football fans certainly thought highly enough of Corral’s 2021 season to vote him as the top selection on their ballots.

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Before the 2021 college football season, Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin made a prediction that his signal-caller would be selected as a top ten pick in the 2022 NFL Draft.

“He was throwing it 70 yards with accuracy, and he’s not a huge guy [6-foot-2, 205 pounds],” Kiffin said before the season. “But his whole upper body is loose, really loose. When he does our flexibility test where he puts his arms back, it’s amazing how far back he can go. He’s also a very good quarterback scrambler. He’s not going to be the fastest guy at the [NFL] combine, but he’s got really good feet and is slippery once he starts running,”

Simply put, it’s devastating to see the top notch dual-threat quarterback go down with an injury like that in his final college football game.

On3’s Jonathan Wagner also contributed to the report.