LOGAN — The bad memories aren’t far removed, but Chuckie Keeton prefers not to dwell on them. Upon request, though, he can deliver the dates and circumstances of every injury in his star-crossed football career.
“Funny thing about it,” says the former dual-threat quarterback, “is I only finished one year.”
Everything else was juxtaposed like a Picasso.
“My freshman year, I had a neck injury at Hawaii at the end of the season. Sophomore year, I got banged up but I made it through. Two-thousand-thirteen, left ACL against BYU,” he says. “Two-thousand fourteen, left bone bruise against Wake Forest, and then 2015 I had a bone bruise against Utah … then had a right MCL sprain against Washington.”
“That’s just part of life. You’re going to get knocked down. One way or the other, you have to get up.”
Chuckie Keeton
There’s not a hint of self-pity in his voice.
“Then I was blessed enough to come back and finish out the season with the guys in the bowl game.”
It was a Famous Idaho Potato Bowl loss, in which he logged just 114 passing yards and minus-3 rushing.
“Were you 100 percent in that bowl game?” he is asked.
“I’m 100 percent every time I step on the field.”
It certainly looked that way on Friday as the Utah State Aggies wrapped up the second practice of the season at Maverik Stadium.
Keeton is among the leaders in virtually every USU career passing category. It makes sense that coach Matt Wells would hire him as a graduate assistant. Keeton spent the last two years coaching at Oregon State after a brief stop with the Houston Texans in the summer of 2016.
Would Chuckie Keeton have made it in the NFL, had he not had so many injuries?
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