Bell Quits NCCU Football DURHAM Warren Bell has played his last college football game.
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Bell, N.C. Central's starting quarterback the past two seasons, left the team Monday due to a nagging back injury from last basketball season. The former
Olympic High standout told Central head coach Rudy Abrams about his decision on Monday. "(Bell) told me that he did not feel his back could take a season of football,"
Abrams said after the team's first practice session Tuesday. Bell who missed spring practice because of the injury, talked with his family on Saturday in Charlotte before making his decision.
"I don't think my back could take 10-11 weeks of contact without being re-injured," Bell said, "especially since my back just healed about one month ago."
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"It was so hard for me to tell the coaches that I wasn't going to play," Bell
said. "I have been playing football since I was 8 years old. It was a hard decision, but it was something I had to do." In three seasons, Bell became the school's seventh all-time leader in passing
yards with 2,916, including 1,326 yards last year. "Anytime you lose an athlete as good as Warren Bell it is going to hurt the program," Abrams said. "But I want what is best for Warren."
Bell said he will now concentrate on preparing for basketball. The 6-2, 190-pound guard averaged 9.4 points and 5.1 rebounds per game for the Eagles last year.
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