Terry Wilson Jr., Quarterback, 6-3, 205, So-JC, Oklahoma City, Okla. (Garden City CC/Oregon/Del City)
Rated the No. 5 overall junior college player by ESPN … Redshirted the 2016 season at Oregon … Transferred to Garden City Community College in Garden City, Kansas for the 2017 season … Completed 57.6 percent of his passes for 2,133 yards, 26 touchdowns and 11 interceptions while rushing for 518 yards and five touchdowns on 126 carries at Garden City … Named the Jayhawk Offensive Player of the Year … Finished the regular season second in the Jayhawk Conference in passing yards, first in touchdown passes and first in efficiency … Ranked sixth in the nation in touchdown passes … Garden City head coach Jeff Sims said “He’s a dual-threat quarterback that’s very intelligent, dynamic, fast. He’s an accurate thrower” … Completed 154 of 281 passes for 2,406 yards and 25 touchdowns as a senior at Del City High School to go along with 709 rushing yards (8.5 avg.) and 11 scores … Threw for 2,856 yards and 24 TDs as a junior, accounting for 14.3 points a game … Played in the Semper Fidelis All-American Bowl, where he led the West team by completing 10-19 passes for 111 yards and rushed for an additional 46 yards … Also played in the Oklahoma Coaches Association All-State football game … Named the Oklahoman’s All-Midlands Region recipient and was chosen to PrepStar Super 30 listing of the state’s top recruits … Ranked as Oklahoma’s No. 2 prospect in the state (Tulsa World and The Oklahoman) coming out of high school … Two-time all-state honorable mention selection … Chose UK over Florida and Nebraska … Will have three years of eligibility remaining.
Mark Stoops on Terry Wilson:
You know, it was, I think, a credit to our staff to go out and look and see who was available. Fortunately, Terry was there, and so we’re very blessed to have him in this signing class. I think it was a position we definitely needed to get somebody in this spot. The nice thing about Terry is he’s a year older, played a year of college football. He’s already been at a Power Five school for a year, so he knows what he’s getting into.
The beautiful thing about him was he was a joy to recruit. You know, it was very difficult. He was getting pulled a million different directions, and there was a time when things started getting very hairy where he was getting pulled from people at his junior college, from everybody, and that’s when you saw maybe some reports of when he was coming. And, he and I sat down and had a very direct conversation with him. He was unbelievable. You saw the maturity in him. When he talked to me, he said, ‘I never really looked at it that way, I hear you Coach.’ I told him to think about a few things, and he called me back 40 minutes later, and he said, ‘Coach, I’m coming in. I’m coming in on this date, I don’t care what anybody else says,’ and he came in, and it’s been a great recruiting process from that point on. He came in, had a good weekend, and he’s been a joy to recruit.
Well, he fits in very well with what we do. I think we molded the offense to what we had to a year ago, like we talked about. We have tried to be more efficient in throwing the ball, and at times we have, and again, that goes with everybody. That goes from protection to receivers and quarterback and so on. I think we all want to take the passing game up another notch, and again, I think — that’s not throwing any shade on Stephen (Johnson), that’s with the whole offense, and in particular with getting some playmakers around him. But he’s very versatile, but he’s got a very strong arm. He’s very poised in the pocket, but yes, he is athletic, as well.
