Kentucky coach Joker Phillips announce today that starting tailback CoShik Williams, who is a fifth-year senior, would miss the remainder of the season with a hip injury.
“CoShik Williams is done for the season,” Phillips said. “He had a torn labrum in his hip after getting the MRI back. We will have that repaired as soon as possible. He is out after playing a game (vs. Louisville) and 14 plays (vs. WKU). Again, next man up. That is the attitude that you have to take and those guys have done a good job that have been in there with Jon-Jon (Jonathan George) and Raymond (Sanders). That means now that the young fellow (Dyshawn Mobley) is getting closer to getting more reps. I know the question will be about Justin Taylor, if something should happen to one of those guys and we think we can get him the type of reps that we thing we can get (Patrick) Towles than he will play, otherwise he won’t play.”
Williams, who came to Kentucky as a walk-on, played in 25 games as a Wildcat, including seven starts. He rushed for 738 yards, averaging 4.3 per carry, with seven touchdowns. He had a career-high 148 yards last season in the win over Jacksonville State, along with 111 yards and two touchdowns in the victory over Ole Miss. He also scored what proved to the game-winning touchdown in the historic triumph over Tennessee.
As a sophomore, his top game came in the win over Charleston Southern, when he ran for 95 yards and a career-best three TDs.
“I feel heartbroken for him because the guy has worked so hard,” Phillips said. “Everybody knows his story. The guy came here as a non-scholarship guy and worked his tail off to be a starter and is now out for the rest of the season. The reason why he was the starter is because the starter was already out in Josh Clemons. The next guy has to be up.”
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Oh, dear, my heart also breaks for CoShik. Further, ironically, within a week it has been the same words for another starter, another Kentucky football player who had “worked so hard” to get to the point of starting at his position at the start of the season — had worked so hard to excel, actually. Then, of course, for CoShik, he had started as a walk-on and is now a fifth-year senior.
Then I feel for this football team, too. What promise both Maxwell Smith and CoShik had shown. Also, as has been discussed by various media writers, this team now has two true freshmen at the top of the depth chart at quarterback AND we have already been forced to play mostly fourth- and fifth-stringers at running back. When I think back to the potential on offense we had seen against Louisville and Kent State (and that was without the projected starter at running back, Josh Clemons), I feel sick that we’ve lost these pieces. Again, with the injured Clemons not being able to play, CoShik’s seeing little action because of his injury and now being out, and Raymond Sanders’ missing action due both to injuries and the one-game suspension, it’s almost unreal that we’ve been playing those fourth- and fifth-stringers this early in the season. It’s a BUMMER — and, again, that especially goes to CoShik this day. My heart, too, really hurts for this young man.
Well put Tana
Thanks for all your effort while at UK CoShik…you will be missed! It’s hard to replace “heart” on any team and you certainly brought a ton to the table. Good luck to you!