Champ Monds’ Injury Sparks Conspiracy Theories in NIL Era

The end of Champ Monds’ high school football career arrived so suddenly that it barely seemed real. One day, Vero Beach’s Notre Dame-bound quarterback was preparing to play against national power St. Frances (Maryland) in one of the biggest matchups in the school’s history. The next, he wasn’t playing. A day later, Monds announced his varsity football career was over due to an injury that seemed to come out of nowhere. An injury ending the varsity career of one of the most talented quarterback prospects in Treasure Coast history should have produced sadness, disappointment and sympathy. Instead, it produced jaded…