Austin Simmons left Kroger Field with a scare, but not without a statement of intent, and that says plenty about how much this matters to him right now. In his first SEC road start at Kentucky, Austin Simmons exited with an apparent lower-leg injury after his knee was pinned awkwardly, needing help to the medical tent as trainers evaluated him in the third quarter. Before leaving, he had gone 13-of-24 for 235 yards with two interceptions and added eight rushes for 44 yards and a touchdown.

But this is not a story of a quarterback’s September bruise. This is the story of the path that led him to this game in the first place. Simmons was a legitimate two-sport athlete in Oxford, a talented lefty on the diamond who has now given up baseball to be a full-time SEC quarterback. That choice re

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