The tailback of last year's NCAA champion Ohio State Buckeyes has filed a lawsuit against the National Football League.Sophomore Maurice Clarett and his attorney, Alan C. Milstein, have pleaded to a judge that the NFL dismiss its rule requiring students to be three years out of high school before entering the NFL.
Clarett filed his suit in Manhattan federal court, claiming that the NFL's draft eligibility rule violates the league's current collective bargaining agreement with the NFL player's union. The suit claims that "the rule is a restraint of amateur athletes who were strangers to the collective bargaining process."
Clarett is looking to enter the NFL now, after being suspended for the entire college football season for breaking NCAA bylaws regarding perks for athletes and allegations of lying to investigators.
Clarett's claim is that it is "almost certain" that he would have been taken in the first round of last year's NFL draft and that his ineligibility cost him millions.
The lawsuit also emphasizes that it is unfair that football is the only major professional sport with a requirement for a three-year waiting period before entering the draft.
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