PROVO — Like being stuck in traffic, the career of BYU tight end Joe Tukuafu has been marked by various stops, delays and detours.
In fact, he hasn’t played in a competitive football game since 2013. That's six years.
So perhaps nobody was more excited about, and more grateful for, the start of fall camp at the end of July than the 6-foot-4, 265-pound redshirt sophomore.
“It brought back a lot of memories,” Tukuafu said. “It was good to be out here, to breathe the grass again, stretch with everybody, put a helmet on. I loved it.