Jayson VanHook returns from long layoff to star for UTEP Bret Bloomquist, Wochit
For two years, Jayson VanHook wandered through UTEP football’s wilderness.
While his team struggled on the field in 2017 and ‘18, VanHook, an athletic linebacker, couldn’t get to the field.
In 2017, his second year with the program, it was a shoulder injury suffered in Camp Ruidoso, when he was a returning starter coming off a Conference USA all-freshman campaign that seemed to bode future excellence.
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He did try to come back at midseason, but that didn’t even last a game — one tackle, to be exact — before he injured himself again.