"Same people criticizing Cam Ward for sitting out the 2nd half of the Pop Tarts Bowl, would be saying how dumb it was for him to play if he got hurt," Griffin wrote in a post to X. "He didn't have to play AT ALL. Instead he gave us a half of jaw dropping plays. Stop villainizing these student athletes."
In the final game of his collegiate career, the Texas native tossed for three scores and usurped Case Keenum as the NCAA Division I's all-time leader in touchdown passes. But the presumed top-10 selection didn't take a single snap in the second half.
Miami coach Mario Cristobal said the decision to sit Ward for the second half was planned in advance of the game but declined to elaborate further. "All meetings with players, and decisions like that, we made them in private [so] we keep them in private," Cristobal told reporters after the game. "I'll prefer not to answer any questions as it relates to that. But I know [Ward] played his best while he was in there."
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