San Diego • Utah quarterback Tyler Huntley’s return to the field in Monday’s Holiday Bowl “would take a miracle,” Ute coach Kyle Whittingham said Sunday.
During his appearance at a news conference with Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald, Whittingham labeled Huntley's case “by all definitions, a game-time decision.”
Asked after the formal session about who would make that call, Whittingham said the school’s medical staff would determine whether Huntley was ready to absorb hits, eight weeks after his collarbone was broken in a Nov. 3 game at Arizona State. Huntley has practiced for three weeks and has looked good lately, but “there’s a difference between ‘function’ and all that, and taking shots,” Whittingham said.