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Utah QB Cam Rising throws during Utah spring camp at Spence and Cleone Eccles Football Center in Salt Lake City, UT on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. | Eli Rehmer, Utah Athletics
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Talking to Utah quarterback Cam Rising at the start of spring football, there’s one thing that’s evident.
After a year away in 2023 rehabbing from surgery to repair his ACL, meniscus, MPFL and MCL, you can hear the hunger in Rising’s voice as he begins spring practice.
“Just throwing the ball as much as we can and just try to go over our plays as much as we can so that they’re flying around, making plays and not thinking about what we’re doing and just how we can do it better.”
Utah QB Cam Rising on spring camp
There are a myriad of reasons that Rising returned to Utah — a healthy season at the college level to show NFL scouts he still can play at an extremely high level, even after a brutal knee injury, and the NIL money certainly doesn’t hurt. Right up there with those reasons is a belief from Utah’s starting quarterback that his team can win the Big 12 championship in the Utes’ inaugural season in the conference and clinch Utah’s first berth in the College Football Playoff.
“I feel like there’s just meat left on the bone right here that I want to go finish — that and just really make sure that we can go win a championship and go to the playoff,” Rising said after Utah finished the first of 15 spring practices Tuesday.
“That’s really my goal this season and I think we got a great team around that can help me and just make a lot of plays for me, so I think we’re in a great position to do that.”
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Publish date : 2024-03-14 16:48:19
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