Utah tight end Brant Kuithe sets a Big 12 record in his first game back in 700 days. But for him, there was only one touchdown that really mattered.
At long last, Brant Kuithe could let himself smile. Not just a smirk, or a grin, but one of those full-on, ear-to-ear cheesers.After his scoring first touchdown in almost two years, this raw show of emotion on Thursday night was simply for himself. Catharsis manifested.Utah’s senior tight end, who spent the last 705 days on the sidelines rehabbing a knee injury, finally had his breakthrough in a
“Good to see them back doing their thing,” head coach Kyle Whittingham said, sensing that play could have been a carbon copy from something Kuithe did in 2021 or even 2020.The rest of Kuithe’s day almost felt inevitable. This fully healthy version of the man was no match for Southern Utah. He scampered in for two more touchdowns. During his last one, he shed three would-be tacklers en route to the end zone. They bounced off of him so easily that Kuithe barely thought he got hit.
He rehabbed, tried to make it back in time for 2023, and then was hit with more devastating news. He had aKuithe thought 2022 would be his last college tour before the NFL. Instead, he was looking at 2024 as the next time he could even prove himself to be on that level again. Utah Utes tight end Brant Kuithe celebrates a touchdown as the Utah Utes host the Southern Utah Thunderbirds, NCAA football in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024.
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