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Tylan Wallace Talks Knee Rehab, Recruiting Chuba and How 2020 Could Look Like 2017

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This time next year, Tylan Wallace will be preparing to hear his name called at the 2021 NFL Draft. This time this year? He’s trying to get his knee right for the 2020 NCAA football season (if there is one).

Wallace appeared on SiriusXM Big 12 Radio at the end of last week and said that he talks to his trainers “pretty much every day” and that the expectation is full speed on his rehabbed knee somewhere around June.

“It’s going pretty good so far,” Wallace said of the rehab. “It’s kind of difficult with everything going on to find ways to rehab and stay in shape, but I’m trying to make it work and I’m doing what I can for sure.”

Maybe more interestingly, Wallace talked about why he returned. A few of those reasons included Kasey Dunn getting the OC job, getting past his knee injury and the opportunity to graduate with his brother, but the primary one was … well … college.

“There was a lot of things,” Wallace said. “I was talking to my coach, and he was saying, ‘One thing you don’t get back is that time you spend in college. He says college is one of the best times in your life. Especially your senior year, he said that’s a time you really don’t get back.”

Still, he talked to everybody about what he should do.

“I was talking to everybody I could,” said Wallace. “My brother, my mom, coach Dunn, the trainers — I was trying to get everybody’s opinion on what they think I should do and what they would do if they were in my situation. I took all their opinions into consideration.

“[Coach Gundy] was really excited. He liked that a lot. He was really happy I was coming back.”

Lastly, the recruitment. No. 2 and No. 30. How did it go down?

“It was just like recruiting all over again,” Wallace said of trying to get Chuba back to Stillwater. “I knew if I was coming back, I was definitely going to try and get Chuba to come back with me. I was blowing his phone up every day trying to see what he was trying to do. I was like, ‘Hey man we can do this thing, come on back with me.’ It was definitely like recruiting all over again.”

As for how Chu and Tylan are going to operate within a new-old look (?) Dunn-run offense?

“When I talk to coach Dunn, he said he thinks this offense is going to look more like the 2017 year with James and Mason,” concluded Wallace. “He compares it to that year a lot. If you want to have a guess as to what it’s going to look like, somewhat like that.”

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Cannot wait.

Hat tip to SI’s Pokes Report on spotting this interview.

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