By Vinny Hardy

Terry Wilson has already accomplished quite a bit during his brief time at Kentucky. In the bottom line, results-oriented outlook that is college football, 75 percent of the games he played in ended with another one being added to the W column. Terry Touchdown accomplished this all while easing and acclimating his way into SEC football after transferring to Lexington form Garden City (KS) Community College.

The 10-3 2018 season capped off with a Citrus Bowl win over Penn State was the best season ever witnessed in a lot of our lifetimes.

Excitement was high for the team in 2019 and for Wilson who was poised to show what he could really do now that he had a year of SEC ball under his belt. Unfortunately, that was all cut short by that horse-collar tackle he suffered against Eastern Michigan.

The road to recovery would be and has been a long, arduous, daunting one.

Yes sir yes sir!!! New knee, same me baby.. ready to get this rehab rolling!! Big slime got me right 🙏🏾 #Combackszn @darrenjohnsonmd pic.twitter.com/gyRp5zkTy7 — Terry Wilson (@TerryTouchdown3) September 19, 2019

Once the surgery was in the rear-view mirror, Wilson was all about that action of attacking his rehab.

There have been inevitable ups and downs to work through.

Little sluggish.. but it’s coming 🤣 pic.twitter.com/obye7ZFW8B — Terry Wilson (@TerryTouchdown3) February 6, 2020

But the target date was and continues to be the motivation:

September 5, 2020 at Kroger Field against those same Eastern Michigan Eagles. The opportunity to prove to himself that he’s back, to prove to his team that he’s back, to prove to EMU that he’s back, to prove to the SEC and everyone on Kentucky’s schedule that he’s back. It all goes down on September 5.

Terry Wilson has all the motivation in the world to continue grinding and putting in the work to get himself ready for the season opener.

Earlier today, he tweeted out the ultimate motivation that would only inspire him to grind harder than he thought he already is.

AUG 30th 👶🏽💙 — Terry Wilson (@TerryTouchdown3) February 18, 2020

Fatherhood is the motivation of all motivations. If you’re goofing off and not quite “adulting” the way you should it jolts you in line and makes you realize that you only have a handful of months to get yourself together to be ready for the baby’ arrival and being ready to help the mother of your child as best you can. If you already have your ducks in a row, so to speak, it will still make you reevaluate everything to make sure you’re good and double check to see what you could be doing better.

Look at the difference fatherhood made in the case of Lynn Bowden. He was young and in need of maturing when he came to Lexington and left full grown and locked in. Little Lynn III had a big role in that. Add fatherhood to Terry Wilson’s motivation and imagine how dialed in he’s going to be in 2020.

Congratulations to Terry and Krisen!



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