Sam Howell Focused on Season, Senior Day as NFL Decision Nears

Posted Nov 16, 2021
"I am graduating, so technically academically I am a senior," Sam Howell said. "I am not ready to say that I am declaring for the draft or ready to say I am coming back or anything like that. It is just something where I am academically a senior so I am graduating. This could be my last home game, it could not. There are still a lot of decisions to be made." (Inside Carolina)

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