Many Kentucky fans believed that quarterback Terry Wilson was struggling during a large portion of the 2018 season.
Wilson seemed to stop running as much and lacked the explosiveness he displayed early in the season.
It turns out that there was a good reason for Wilson to slow down a bit. The quarterback revealed in a recent interview that he played through a significant leg injury that was suffered early last season:
That’s according to the quarterback, who recently had a sit-down video interview with Big Blue Insider, which has been posted to YouTube. During the interview, Wilson notes that he was injured during Kentucky’s game against Mississippi State.
“It was late in the game, I think fourth quarter, I dropped back, had some pressure coming and I had gotten sacked and (offensive lineman) Bunchy (Stallings) fell on my right leg. My knee just did something silly,” Wilson revealed in the interview. “I was on the ground like, ‘Man.’ I wasn’t thinking anything about it, my adrenaline was running so I get up, I’m like, ‘Alright, it’s going to be a little sore.’”
Soon after suffering the injury, Wilson said he could not press off his right leg and couldn’t walk the next day. The injury was tough to deal with both physically and mentally for the first-year Kentucky starter.
“It was messing with me mentally, I wasn’t trying to think about it too much because I knew I had a job to go out there and do for the team,” Wilson added.
Here’s the complete interview with Big Blue Insider:
