When Northern Illinois linebacker Kyle Pugh suited up Sept. 1 against Eastern Illinois, it represented the start of his eighth and final season of college eligibility. The super senior now reflects on the career-halting injury that got him here.
Kyle Pugh remembers the play that would become just the first leg of an odyssey of repeated heartbreaks, only he didn’t know it at the time.
“No part of me would have been OK with it,” Pugh said about the prospect not finishing his eligibility. Pugh redshirted as a freshman in 2015 because there were upperclassmen ahead of him on the depth chart. In 2016, he primarily played special teams in 10 games. Northern Illinois linebacker Kyle Pugh celebrates a defensive stop with Sutton Smith while playing the Buffalo Bulls during the MAC Championship at Ford Field on Nov. 30, 2018 in Detroit, MichiganDisaster struck again two games into the 2019 season against Utah when he broke the socket in the same shoulder.That freak occurrence — which “broke the coracoid process” and glenoid in his shoulder socket, Duncan said — cost Pugh the rest of the season.
“I had to write a brief request to the NCAA for an extended career, just because of the time that I’ve spent on the sideline. It was only like a paragraph long,” Pugh said. “And then if you add up adds up to probably a season and a half.“I sent it in and I didn’t really know what to expect or how they were going to respond to it, but they ended up giving me two extra years, which explains why I’m here now.
But rehab was different this time. He had trouble changing direction and decelerating. His subconscious had to regain confidence in his body.It has been a winding journey for Bloom graduate Kyle Pugh , who's in his final season at linebacker for Northern Illinois. Pugh said his current teammates, some of them as much as seven years his junior, have been supportive, but that doesn’t mean they don’t give him grief.
Pugh volunteers be the voice when players have to address issues with coaches, but his institutional wisdom extends outside the locker room.“I don’t know, really, anybody who has been here longer than Kyle, from our coaching to operations to the athlete training staff,” Duncan said.
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