LEXINGTON — Everybody tells Will Levis to slide more.
They’re always stressing the quarterback’s value to the Kentucky football team, preaching to him to slide or find the sideline when he takes off and runs. Avoid hits. Live to run another day. Stay safe outside the pocket, the better to pick apart defenses from inside it.
Everyone wants Levis to be more careful.
Well, almost everyone.
Tim Tebow offered a dissenting opinion in an offseason conversation. The ex-Florida great “kind of took the opposite approach,” Levis said, recounting a famous moment early in a 2008 game against Florida State, when he rolled out and took off on third and long, lowering his shoulder into a would-be Seminole defender for a tone-setting first down.