There’s no easy way to approach the difficult subject that has become a defining part of Ryan Hilinski’s life.
His brother Tyler committed suicide in January of 2018. It’s something that defined the end of his high school career, played a small role in where he chose to go to college and even factored into his family moving from one coast to the other.
In the recruitment process, it came up. It almost had to.
“That’s a tough thing to talk about obviously,” Gamecocks quarterbacks coach Dan Werner said. “And you never want to talk too much about it or not enough.