5 Biggest unanswered questions after Jeff Hardy's DUI incident on SmackDown

#3 Where does this leave Elias?

How will WWE bring back Elias into the fold?

Elias was run over by a car during the opening segment of Friday Night SmackDown last week where Jeff Hardy got arrested. While The Drifter was removed from the Intercontinental title tournament, maybe this is actually a good thing for him. This protected him from an unneeded loss in the tournament and evoked a great deal of sympathy for him from the fans in the process.

WWE has already done the same thing with Apollo Crews over on Monday Night RAW and even made him a champion in the process. They started by having him get injured in a United States Championship match against Andrade, then kept him on the shelf for a few weeks and then had him come back and win the title.

If nothing else, it was a breath of new life into Crews' character and was also one of the biggest surprises of the year so far. Elias' situation is also similar. Maybe he could challenge the winner of the IC title tournament and thus derive some good out of the Hardy incident. If WWE reveals Hardy to be the assailant himself then perhaps Elias could feud with him on his return.