'Please Sit Down': NFL Players React to Alabama's Jaylen Waddle Playing in Title Game

Patrick Mahomes, Dez Bryant and AJ Brown are among NFL players weighing in on Alabama's Jaylen Waddle playing in the title game against Ohio State.

It's not uncommon for NFL players to pass their wisdom on to young college athletes. Naturally, the professionals will tell the headstrong and heart-first players to take care of themselves first and foremost. 

So, when Alabama wide receiver Jaylen Waddle returned to the field for the first time since fracturing his ankle, it left a lot of NFL players concerned. Despite the major injury and not playing since Oct. 24, the junior is a sure-fire first-round pick and risking further injury in the national title game isn't ideal.

Those same NFL players erupted online when Waddle caught a pass early in the first quarter of the national championship and came up limping. 

Welcome back Jaylen Waddle

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— PFF College (@PFF_College) January 12, 2021

Respect the heart! But you can’t let that man be out there! https://t.co/QqaXYQ1EEX

— Patrick Mahomes II (@PatrickMahomes) January 12, 2021

Cmon nick don’t let Waddle do this, he’s hurt and shouldn’t be out there! Cmon bro! Sometimes you gotta protect players from themselves!

— Darius Shaquille Leonard (@dsleon45) January 12, 2021

Keep waddle out of the game... I know you love the game brotha but you not playing tonight is best for your future

— Dez Bryant (@DezBryant) January 12, 2021

Waddle making me nervous🥴 they needa take him out

— Darius Slayton (@Young_Slay2) January 12, 2021