For TreyShun Hurry, the breakthrough didn’t come all at once. It came after a long stretch of waiting, working and staying ready for the moment Louisville finally needed more from him.
The wide receiver transferred from San Jose State to Louisville in 2025 and stepped into a starting role, but for much of last season he was stuck behind Chris Bell and Caullin Lacy. He finished with just 122 yards and a touchdown on 15 catches, a modest line for a player who kept showing up and doing the dirty work.
That patience is paying off now. With Lawayne McCoy sidelined after getting hurt against Syracuse on Oct. 17 and out indefinitely, Hurry has moved into a bigger role in the Cardinals’ passing game.
Two weeks ago, he scored his second touchdown as a Card. Then last week at Georgia Tech, he delivered the best game of his Louisville career: eight catches, 104 yards and another touchdown.
He now heads into the Nov. 14 game at North Carolina second on the team with 39 receptions and third with 474 receiving yards.
“We're missing a big piece of our offense,” Hurry said of McCoy. “So I just had to step up, and so it's no drop-off for the team and stay explosive.”
The production has come in a rush over the last three games. Hurry has 203 yards and two touchdowns on 15 receptions in that stretch, a sharp jump from the first three games of the season, when he had seven catches for 107 yards.
His first touchdown of the year came on a 22-yard grab from Lincoln Kienholz in Louisville’s 52-24 win over Stanford on Oct. 31.
Kienholz made no secret of how much he wanted to get Hurry into the end zone.
“I think he’s a super solid receiver,” the quarterback said. “He gets open when he needs to.
If you go back and just look at his games, he’s had multiple games with 60-plus receiving yards, which is huge. ... That’s something I was driving to try to get him his first one (touchdown).”
The Georgia Tech game was the payoff, and it also snapped a long drought. Hurry hadn’t topped 100 receiving yards in a game since his Weber State days in 2023.
Getting there took more than route running and hands. It took a lot of patience.
There were moments when he felt discouraged and overlooked, and Kienholz was there trying to keep him steady through it.
“Lincoln was just telling me to be patient. It’s all going to come together,” Hurry said. “I trust my quarterback and trust my team.”
Even before the stat sheet caught up, Hurry was giving Louisville value in other ways. Pro Football Focus lists him tied with offensive lineman Johnnie Brown for the eighth-best run blocking grade on the team at 62.3, and he has played the fifth-most offensive snaps on the roster with 521 through 10 weeks.
That kind of consistency hasn’t gone unnoticed by Jeff Brohm.
“He’s just kind of been that steady component that maybe doesn’t get the ball as much as we’d like to get him to. Not as much credit, but man, he’s physical,” Brohm said.
“He works really hard. He doesn’t miss a practice.
I’d like to see us target him more and (for) him to become a little more productive. And if that happens, I think we can do even better on offense and be more efficient.”
During fall camp, wide receivers coach Deion Branch said Hurry had spent last season trying to find his footing while lining up on the backside and not seeing the ball much. Branch believed the opportunity was coming.
“Last year he was playing X, he was on the backside, really didn't see the ball too much and was just trying to kind of feel his way through the season,” Branch said. “He got better and better week in, week out. But now here's the opportunity for him to possibly be one of the main guys.”
That opportunity is here now, and Hurry has made the most of it. After more than a year of waiting, he’s finally turning steady work into production for Louisville.
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