The Utah Athletics video promoting Saturday’s Red-White Game lasts 52 seconds. That’s longer than many of the Utes’ front-line players will appear in the annual event at Rice-Eccles Stadium to conclude spring football practice.
This is what happens when quarterback Jordan Wynn reflexively dives to recover a fumble: The next generation of starters is held out of the spring game, because coaches worry about anyone being injured in the last of the 15 sessions.
Wynn’s shoulder injury in the 2010 Red-White Game as a returning starter was among “a few bad experiences through the years,” Ute coach Kyle Whttingham said this week.