Marquise Blair leaned up against brick in the shadows just outside Utah’s locker room offering a high-five to every player filing in before kick off. He was still in his warm-ups, suspended for the first half after receiving a targeting call and ensuing suspension in Utah’s win at Arizona on September 22. So the junior safety anxiously looked on in the first half against Stanford, itching to run out and help patrol the back end.
“I was fine. I wasn’t worried about it,” he said. “I just wanted to come in and make as many plays as I can.