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Tennessee WR Bru McCoy updates recovery from season-ending injury in 2023
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Tennessee wide receiver Bru McCoy, no longer confined to a scooter and looking to move on from a brutal injury that cost him most of the 2023 season, is aiming to prove he’s better than ever next season.
The former Southern Cal wideout emerged as a go-to weapon in the UT pass game in 2022. Through the first four games of the 2023 season, he was working his way into form. Then, in the second quarter of the Vols’ win over South Carolina on Sept. 30, McCoy sustained a season-ending fracture-dislocation of his right ankle.
“Four surgeries, about 10 days in the hospital, and here I am now,” McCoy said earlier this week during an appearance on the Tyler & Will show on 99.1 The Sports Animal in Knoxville.
At 6-foot-3, 220 pounds, McCoy is the kind of big-play threat a team just doesn’t turn around and replace on a whim. UT missed him, and he missed the field.
Thoughts of him catching deep shots from Nico Iamaleava no doubt have Tennessee fans excited about the 2024 season. McCoy is just eager to get back to being himself.
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“Rehab’s gone great. No setbacks. Out of the boot. I wear shoes every day. I walk around normal. I can lift like a normal guy. I can live my normal daily life,” he told the afternoon radio hosts. “Now I’m taking the step into becoming Bru McCoy the football player, and my goal is to take this time that I have to rehab and make myself – I don’t want to come back and be less of who I was as a player.
“I want to be better, so my goal is to kind of, in my head, I’m like show everyone that this wasn’t a setback, it was just a change. It was adversity that you grow from and you come back better. And that’s my goal and that’s where I’m at right now, is I’m on that journey of getting back to being who I was before I got hurt.”
Throughout his UT career, McCoy has brought in 69 receptions for 884 yards and five touchdowns.
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