‘He wants to play’: What Kyle Whittingham said about Cam Rising’s injury situation

Utah Utes quarterback Cameron Rising (7) warms up against the Arizona Wildcats in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News

The way the last few weeks have gone, it’s easy to wonder if we’ve all jumped into a time machine that’s transported us back to 2023.

As Utah enters the heart of the 2024 season, star quarterback Cam Rising is back on the sidelines again, this time with a finger injury that has kept him out for 3.5 of Utah’s five games this season.

Coach Kyle Whittingham hasn’t provided a lot of information about the injury, just like last year. In 2023, Rising took matters into his own hands, detailing the full extent of his devastating injury that basically tore everything there is to tear in his knee — ACL, meniscus, MPFL and MCL — in an ESPN 700 radio interview.

The lack of publicly available information surrounding Rising’s ring finger injury he suffered in Week 2 against Baylor has led some fans to question the veteran quarterback’s toughness, and whether or not Rising is the one making the call to sit out to continue healing.

One fan even showed up to Saturday’s game with a “missing” sign with the quarterback’s picture and identifiable qualities on the poster.

There’s been a lot of opaqueness throughout this entire process, but the one thing that has been crystal clear is this — Rising wants to play. The decision to start true freshman Isaac Wilson over Rising, especially in the last two games at Oklahoma State and vs. Arizona, has been out of Rising’s control.

Rising has been doing everything possible to get back onto the field, and he’ll return as soon as he can.

“Cam Rising wants to play worse than anybody and when he’s able to, he will. It’s not like he’s been just able to play and not going, I mean, that’s not the case,”…

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Publish date : 2024-10-02 03:10:00

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