Gavin Wimsatt broke convention when the star quarterback committed to Rutgers. Ranked as the No. 89 player in the 2022 recruiting class, Kentucky’s lengthy relationship was not enough to make the Owensboro Red Devil a Wildcat. In a recent conversation with The Athletic, Wimsatt used this analogy to explain why he chose to play college football for Greg Schiano.
“Everyone remembers the first person to do something,” Wimsatt told Ari Wasserman this week. “They remember the first person to land on the moon. They remember the person who is brave enough to do something first. I wanted to do something first.