AUSTIN (KXAN) — Running backs don't typically say they'd rather be tackled than score a touchdown, but then again, Texas' CJ Baxter isn't a typical running back.

Coming off a knee injury that kept him out all of last season, Baxter said he's "100%" and ready to go this season after a year of intense physical therapy and rehabilitation workouts. He said he was excited to get hit in the team's first scrimmage of fall camp Aug. 9.

"The first two months were brutal, mentally, watching the games," he said. "I had surgery a week before the first game, so I had to stay home and watch from the couch. It was hard to watch football. But the whole part of rehab was to put the work in so I wouldn't have to worry about my knee."

A silver lining with the injury, Baxter said, was that it provided some

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