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Playing hurt v injured

Utah QB tore a ligament in his foot last week that holds bones and the arch together. The doctor said he was shocked the kid could even stand and he will need season ending surgery.

What’s remarkable is this happened before halftime and the Utah staff injected him with pain meds, put a steel plate in his shoe and made him play the 2nd half.

Earlier this season Utah QB Cam Rising suffered a season ending injury in the first quarter against ASU and Utah shot him up with pain meds and he played the rest of the game.

All of this in a season where Utah is 1-5 in conference. I understand playing hurt. I don’t understand playing injured. Especially in a throw away season.

This reminds me of Tracy Smith throwing kids 100+ pitches on opening weekend because his career needed wins more than he cared about the health of his pitchers.

Compare that to Dillingham who sits Skat even when Skat is begging to play.

Numbers between Sam Leavitt and Avery Johnson are uncanny

Both in their 2nd season (Johnson as a true soph & Leavitt as a RS Frosh......Johnson has played 1 more game in 2024)

Passing


10Avery JohnsonKansas StSOQB925115361.018927.5177141.0527.9210.2
11Sam LeavittAriz StFRQB820612661.216317.9144146.2225.8203.9

Rushing (games played/carries/yds/average per carry/TDs/Att-game/Yds per game

18Avery JohnsonKansas StSOQB9733915.3648.1143.44
21Sam LeavittAriz StFRQB8733064.1949.1338.25

2 STUD yunguns

time to ruin another Wildcat's day

All Big 12 2024

With 3 games to go in the regular season, Myles Rowser is in the thick of the hunt for All-Big 12 honors
He is currently 3rd among DBs in Tackles Per Game and 3rd among them in Solos .

Oklahoma State's senior Trey Rucker is already a lock to be first team safety, but Rowser could very well beat out u4's fellow junior Dalton Johnson for the other spot with the 1's (2 others in the hunt, but possibly below the top 3 are CU senior Cam'Ron Simon-Craig and WVU's senior Anthony Wilson

Ghost's coverage has improved nearly every game and he is currently tied for 3rd on the team with 5 PBUs (more than Rucker. Johnson, Simon Craig & Wilson combined) to go along with his 2 QB Hurries, 3 TFL and 1 sack. Only Rucker (2) and Wilson (1) have an INT among the 5

In 2023, the Big 12 had 5 Safeties between the 1st and 2nd All-Big 12 teams (Back when there were 12 teams and before the league lost both bluebloods)

Fortunately for Rowser, Dilly does not penalize boneheaded penalties with reduced PT and so far the penalties have dried up for him

Obviously Skatt has a VERY GOOD shot( leading the conference in all purpose yards by 16 per game) despite UCF's Harvey, Texas Tech's Brooks and Kansas State's Giddens playing very well.

Jordyn Tyson has a very long shot that would require a huge finish & others to slow down

perhaps Fautanu has a shot (he has some penalties and some sacks allowed but no bad snaps), not sure about other centers in the Big 12 but the 2 All-Big 12s from 2023 did not return..............and possibly no other Sun Devil has a realistic shot.......Clayton Smith was headed in that direction early in the season and maybe he gets hot))
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