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  Dru Prox doesn't know exactly when or how it happened, but the Kansas linebacker remembers vividly the surge of emotions that accompanied the season-ending shoulder damage he suffered in the Jayhawks' Big 12 opener nearly a year ago. "Pain. I was very upset," Prox recalled. "I was very mad that happened when it happened, because I felt like I kind of had let my team down at that point." An unnecessarily cruel and raw initial reaction to being forced off the field, Prox said that's just how he felt after one of his arms popped out of a shoulder socket three times during KU's 2019 matchup with West Virginia. "I just felt like I would've made a difference if I could've kept playing that season," Prox said Wednesday during a video conference with reporters, speaking for the first time since experiencing the setback on Sept. 21, 2019.

The season was still young when Prox's issues sidelined him, but the linebacker from Kaufman, Texas, already had emerged as a breakthrough performer for the KU defense during his redshirt junior year. Prox recorded nine or more tackles in each of the Jayhawks' first four games, and finished his abbreviated campaign with 39 total stops, a forced fumble and 2.5 tackles for loss. Although his head coach, Les Miles, didn't share publicly in the weeks following Prox's injury that the linebacker would not return (perhaps a form of gamesmanship, not sharing that information with upcoming opponents), Prox revealed he learned "probably like two or three days" after the WVU game that he would have to wait until 2020 to play again. - Lawrence Journal World


rSr/2023 OLB Dru ProxTexas-San Antonio
News Source: Lawrence Journal World



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