It had been 364 days since Dorian Baker had been tackled.
And that last tackle a year ago had ended his senior season before it could even get started.
It was that tackle in the final scrimmage of preseason a year ago that sent Baker to the hospital for ankle surgery.
So when linebacker DeAndre Square tackled Kentucky’s senior wide receiver to the ground recently, Baker waited and worried. He’d had “jitters, butterflies in his stomach” thinking about that first full-contact hit.
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