Provo • After BYU quarterback Tanner Mangum ruptured his Achilles tendon while setting up to throw a pass last November at Bulldog Stadium in Fresno, Calif., there were fears that a complete recovery would take up to a year, maybe nine months at the earliest.
An unrepentant optimist, Mangum said a few months later that it wouldn’t take nearly that long for him to return for his senior season.
Mangum, who turns 25 on Sept. 8, received full clearance to participate in contact drills in April, just after BYU’s spring scrimmage, and about five months after the surgery.