With three regular-season games left, Utah_Football can still get to where it wants to go: back to the Pac-12 championship game, and then back to the Rose Bowl.
Utah Utes running back Jaylon Glover runs the ball as the University of Utah hosts Arizona, NCAA football in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022.Cam Rising’s injured left knee is not 100%, as evidenced during Saturday night’s 45-20 win over Arizona. Tavion Thomas does not resemble the 1,100-yard, 21-touchdown force of nature from a year ago. The tight ends room is decimated: Brant Kuithe is out for the season, Dalton Kincaid is out for who knows how long.
Rising looked off on Saturday, and I’ll point to the first quarter specifically. He was 7-for-13 for 76 yards, missing on a handful of throws that he would normally make. In other instances, there were opportunities where he might tuck the ball and run, but didn’t, which would lead one to believe that the knee is not at full strength.
The fact Rising did not look like himself Saturday is OK after such a long layoff. If he still doesn’t look like himself vs. Stanford, with Oregon coming after that, well, this will become more of a problem.Objectively, given that things seemed to reach a breaking point after USC, there was no promise that Thomas was going to see another snap at Utah.He did not initially begin the game at running back, but rather on kickoff and punt coverage.
He carried the ball eight times for 38 yards, all in the second half, before Whittingham indicated postgame that things are heading in a positive direction with Thomas. He stopped short of saying anything definitive about what his role might be moving forward. Late second quarter, first-and-goal at the 9: Shotgun snap, fakes a handoff, rolls left, more good blocking along the perimeter, again beats a defender to the pylon, Touchdown.
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