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‘I refuse to let Tyler die twice': A man in Utah keeps his promise to his brother, who would’ve been the quarterback facing the Utes this week

Ogden • Kelly Hilinski will spend Saturday night in the emergency room, admitting patients who come to McKay-Dee Hospital needing his help. That’s where he was working last September, when he kept sneaking into an office to glance at a computer screen showing Washington State’s football game.

In between patients that evening, he watched his brother Tyler come off the bench and lead WSU’s fourth-quarter comeback in an eventual triple-overtime victory against Boise State. Hilinski never will forget that moment, or the brother who made it happen.

This story was supposed to be about Hilinski, a former Weber State quarterback and aspiring doctor, spending another similarly distracted shift Saturday.