Deion Sanders is rolling with Isaac Wilson again.
After the bye week, Colorado is set to go into Saturday’s matchup against No. 11 Utah with Wilson still in the starting role, even after the redshirt freshman threw three interceptions in his first start for the Buffaloes. Colorado, sitting at 2-3, is trying to snap a three-game slide and avoid a fourth straight loss.
Sanders didn’t sound interested in making a change.
“Isaac is always up to the test,” Deion Sanders said Tuesday. “This isn’t any different.
Isaac is the same Isaac, man. He doesn’t don’t flinch.
“He doesn’t place blame. He is what he is.”
Wilson took over at halftime of the Big 12 opener against Baylor, replacing Julian Lewis. He gave Colorado a lift in the second half of that game, then came out hot on his first drive as a starter the next week against Texas Tech. The Buffs opened with a nine-play, 75-yard touchdown march led by Wilson.
After that, the night turned sharply.
Wilson finished the game completing 59% of his passes for 290 yards with a touchdown and three interceptions. He also logged 55 dropbacks and threw 44 passes in his first start in nearly two years, a volume Sanders does not want to repeat.
“We have one glaring problem,” Deion Sanders said after the game. “You guys know what that is.
Let’s stop the foolishness, man. We have one glaring problem.
“We have to play better at one position.”
That one position will be under the microscope against a Utah defense that has been the Big 12’s No. 1 scoring defense this season. Wilson, who played in 10 games and made seven starts for Utah before transferring, now gets a shot against his old team.
Colorado plans to lean more on the run this week, which should take some pressure off Wilson after the Texas Tech game asked him to shoulder too much.
“We don’t want to throw the ball 40-plus times,” Deion Sanders said Tuesday. “We don’t want to get into that because we’re not great when we throw it that much.”
Lewis and Kaneal Sweetwyne will back up Wilson on Saturday as Colorado tries to spring a Top-25 upset.
Sanders also made clear that his relationship with Wilson gives him a little more room to be blunt than he might with another quarterback.
“Isaac is the kind of guy, this really happened, I said make sure you throw the ball to our team,” Deion Sanders said Tuesday. “We can joke like that because Isaac is one of those kids, man.
He ain’t taking that too hard. He’s not going to cry and have a pity party because that’s the balance of our relationship.
“We can get down like that. And then when he does something, yeah, ‘what you got to say now?’ That’s how Isaac gets down with me.
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