Urban Meyer already knew. He knew Tuf Borland wouldn’t miss a game.
So when Borland suffered an Achilles injury during a practice in the spring of 2018, he immediately expressed confidence that the middle linebacker would return by the time the season began.
“He’s a little bit like J.T. Barrett,” Meyer said on March 26, 2018. “You say he’s out for a while, and he’s not going to be out that long.”
A few months later, Borland proved him right.
His teammates voted him as a team captain as a redshirt sophomore, and he played in every game, starting 11 of them.