Coming off of a grayshirt shirt year he used to rehab a “LisFranc” foot sprain, 5-foot-11, 240 pound linebacker Grant Watanabe wasn’t even sure he’d play this year.
“I kind of did and I kind of didn’t [expect to play this season], I was kind of on the borderline of ready or not,” he explained. “But when my name was called I knew that I would be ready to go.”
All signs pointed towards Watanabe redshirting when he didn’t see any action in the first six games of the year, but things don’t always go to plan.