Emmanuel Pregnon woke up Friday morning convinced that, no matter the pain, he was going to play through it that night.
He might have been the only one. Lincoln Riley deemed the Trojans’ left guard “doubtful” for the meeting with Rutgers with a leg injury that had limited him all week. But really, given the aches and pains he was dealing with, no one was expecting Pregnon to give it a go. No one, apparently, but Pregnon himself.
The last year had changed, in many ways, how he framed that sort of thinking in the first place.