Oregon wide receiver Devon Allen is only the fifth active college football player to compete in the Olympics, and on Tuesday night, he finished fifth in the 110-meter hurdles final.

Allen earned his way into the final field earlier in the night with a mark of 13.36 seconds in the 110m hurdle semifinals; he finished third in his heat and qualified on time. Allen improved on his semifinal time in the final (13.31), but it wasn't quite enough to get him on the medal stand as bronze went to Dimitri Bascou of France (13.24).

Allen's Oregon football teammates were watching him race back in Eugene, cheering him on at a watch party in the football facility.

Allen joins Jim Thorpe, Bob Hayes, James Jett and Marquise Goodwin as college football players that also competed in the Olympics while in school. Thorpe and Hayes are the only two that have earned individual medals -- both with golds.

Allen was a key player as a freshman on the 2014 Oregon team that reached the College Football Playoff, hauling in 41 receptions for 684 yards and seven touchdowns. He tore his ACL, MCL and meniscus on the opening kickoff of the Rose Bowl, and that injury nagged him in 2015 as he was not as effective with only nine receptions for 91 yards.

Allen's resurgence on the track this summer qualifying for the Olympics and then making the final bodes well for his return to the football field this fall for the Ducks as he appears to be fully healthy and feeling no ill effects from his injury a year and a half ago.