After an injury ruins hisscholarship, a teen jock must must defeat the school genius to win a robotics competition in order to fund his invention that will allow him to pursue his dream of playing college football.

My take: When he loses his scholarship to injury, an arrogant former player takes up team eSports and must learn what it takes to be a leader to guide his team to victory.

It is a bit wordy, but I think it is more suited as I think it is more believable that a Jock would know how to play a game like Madden, or any game for that matter, than to suddenly be an inventor.

Anyone can apply themselves to learn if they are well motivated enough - the premise is not probable but plausible.

Seems a little far fetched to me...that a non researcher or heavy science person could just magically come up with a solution to say "fixing an ACL tear, a common, but highly scientific procedure." What if the jock sacrifice his body for the same optimist goal? More real, and more dangerous.

Something like this:
After an injury ruins his scholarship, a jock volunteers for experimental robotic procedures to help him, and thousands of others, restore independent mobility.

A noble cause...and what could possibly go wrong? ?