Click here for linkSome funny quotes in here. The Vol DB had an eight-to-nine-yard head start on Ruggs.
I won’t say it was a highlight, it was just me making a play, doing what I got to do,” Ruggs said Monday. “
I kinda feel like he got more out of that return than he should’ve got because I was jogging in the beginning.”
Ruggs said he thought he saw a teammate with an angle to take down Warrior but he was blocked and hit the turf.
“That’s when I took off full speed,” Ruggs said. “
I feel like, me being me, giving 100 percent effort, I should’ve took off when he first caught it and he never should’ve got that far.”
It went in the books as a 59-yard return for Warrior, a former Alabama recruiting target who signed with Tennessee instead.
“Once I took off, I saw he had a blocker and my biggest thing was getting around the block." Ruggs said. “I knew once I took off, I felt that I was gaining on him, and
everybody on the sideline was pointing at me. I could see that, so I knew I had him; my thought was just, ‘He’s not about to score.’” ...
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