What the Heck Is This NFL Player Doing With His Shirt?

By Kenzie Bryant Apr 28, 2016, 7:18pm EDT

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Look! This handsome sports man is pulling the ol' "stuff your shirt in your bra" trick! It's the one that your mother feared, your pals adored, and made your male peers be like, "wut r u doing I don't get it." Well, this man sees you, and likes it enough to try it himself. Ezekiel Elliott walked the red carpet at the NFL Draft with his shirt tucked up somewhere — not tailored, not a crop top. Tucked.

But this is really a story about freedom. Abdominal freedom. During his former college days at Ohio State, he played with his shirt tucked upwards into his pads, like that '70s/'80s/'90s look. But then in the fall of 2015, the NCAA banned the look for probably terrible reasons. What's wrong with this?