BOULDER — Ahead of what very well might be his last collegiate game on Saturday against Cal, Colorado safety Evan Worthington is grateful for one final guaranteed chance to put on the pads.
It’s a gratitude for a moment — and for a chance to help push the Buffs into a bowl game following a spiraling season of six straight losses and a fired head coach — that, in this senior’s case, is complex.
The senior isn’t grateful simply because he’s expected to play for the first time in a month due to a concussion. And it’s not only because of self-inflicted adversity he’s faced, when team rules violations resulted in his suspension from the program in 2016, forcing Worthington to watch from afar while working 12-hour shifts as a security guard as the Buffs ran the table to the Pac-12 South title.