BOULDER – Tim Lynott Jr. has had the easy route. He was highly recruited out of high school, redshirted his freshman year and was thrown into the fire the next season, excelling at right guard for a special Colorado Buffaloes team and was eventually named a USA Today First-Team Freshman All-American.
Lynott has always been crazy athletic for his size. That’s why head coach Mike MacIntyre wasn’t afraid to name him a starter for game one last season because he knew he had the size and athleticism required to block defensive linemen at the Pac-12 level. Nobody really knew he’d be that good, not even Lynott.