Florida State QB Jordan Travis Suffers Gruesome Leg Break Vs. North Alabama

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Florida State Seminoles superstar quarterback Jordan Travis was carted off of Saturday’s game against North Alabama in the first quarter after suffering a gruesome broken leg.

Travis, one of college football‘s most electrifying players, scrambled for a first down before dragged down by a tackler who then fell onto Travis’ lower leg.

Travis immediately called out to trainers who rushed to the field. They put his left leg into an air cast and he was later taken out of stadium via an ambulance.

The incident came on a play involving a controversial “hip drop” tackle, which the NFL has considered banning in recent weeks.

“What’s happening on the hip-drop is the defender is encircling tackling the runner and then swinging their weight and falling on the side of their leg, which is their ankle or their knee,” Rich McKay, the chairman of the NFL’s competition committee said of the tackle.

“When they use that tactic, you can see why they do, because it can be a smaller man against a bigger man and they’re trying to get that person down because that’s the object of the game. But when they do it, the runner becomes defenseless. They can’t kick their way out from under. And that’s the problem. That’s where the injury occurs. You see the ankle get trapped underneath the weight of the defender.”

Travis was playing in his final game at Florida State’s Doak Campbell Stadium.