Can a college student enter the NFL draft and change their mind before the draft?

Question

Can a college student enter the NFL draft and change their mind before the draft?

Answer 1

Once you sign your letter of intent to turn pro, it is hard to come back to the college level.



You must apply with the NCAA and then prove that you have in no way compromised your amateur status.



Mike Johnson (Detroit Lions) had this issue. When he decided to ride the coattails of Maurice Clarett to the NFL, he assumed he could jump back to college if the lawsuit failed.



He was wrong. The NCAA apparently ruled that by hiring an agent he had compromised is amateur eligibility.



The NCAA is very strict (and crooked, but that is another post.)

Answer 2

If all you do is say that your going to go pro and then decide a few days later that you dont want to, thats fine you just need to appeal to the NCAA and everything should work out. But if you declare then hire an agent, or if you submit paperwork asking applying to the NFL then you cant come back. The whole deal is losing your amateur status and when you hire an agent you lose your amateur status makeing you ineligible to play in college football.



NCAA rules state that a college player loses amateur status when he asks to be placed on the draft list of a professional athletic league -- even if he asks to withdraw his name prior to the draft.



This also includes hiring an agent.

Answer 3

As long as you don't hire an agent, you can go back to college after you enter the draft for the first time. However, after you enter the draft for the 2nd time, you can't play college football anymore.

Answer 4

Yes, but it would be a @ss hole thing to do, seeing as teams have spent time divising where you will be drafted and it will screw up their draft a bit and the guys who wanted to draft you won't be too fond of you im sure.

Answer 5

In the first answer, the person listed Mike Johnson. The player's name is in fact, Mike Williams.



Williams may not even make the team this year.

Answer 6

once you declare, as an underclassmen, you have 2 weeks after the deadline to withdraw but if you sign an agent you are finished in college.

Answer 7

Once you declare for the draft, your college football eligibility is gone. You can change your mind, but you can't go back to playing college ball. You can stay in school and get a degree, though.

Answer 8

Yes, but once you hire an agent - you're college career is done.

Answer 9

only if you don't sign the letter of intent stating you're not coming back to college

Answer 10

Yes, as long as they don't hire an agent...Once they do that, they forfeit their eligibility...

Answer 11

as long as he doesnt sign an agent