Missing from your suggestions are holding schools, bowl sponsors and television networks responsible for supplying insurance coverage for every player participating providing full coverage for catastrophic injury that has a detrimental effect on draft status (or even simple detriment to future quality of life from a concussion or spinal injury to a walking okaying kickoff coverage.
Think Jake Butt who broke his leg in the Orange Bowl after the 2016 season. He doesn’t regret playing for his school, but one can’t deny his injury cost him 10s of million of dollars in lost income due to a far lower draft position than had he emerged from the game healthy. Simply shrugging and saying “sucks for him” isn’t a realistic answer.
I’ll admit that determining draft position 5 months before the draft is problematic, but the risk is very real. Given that the players are unpaid (relative to money generated) as the primary contributors to a product where millions of dollars are trading hands makes suggestions that players be obligated to provide this free labor ludicrous.
