Kyle Whittingham has bad news and good news about the health of Cam Rising, as Tribune columnist Gordon Monson sees it.

During Utah’s bye week, Whittingham emphasized that the veteran quarterback “wants to play worse than anybody.”

Utah Utes football coach Kyle Whittingham held his weekly press conference Monday, and to no one's surprise one of the first questions was about quarterback Cam

Freshman quarterback and former four-star recruit Isaac Wilson is the Utes’ heir apparent. While he has been seen as a fill-in for Rising since the injury, Whittingham said there is a chance Wilson could have the keys handed to him in earnest.

As the Cam Rising injury saga moves into its fifth week, there’s still not much clarity. Ever since the second week of the season — when Rising dislocated a finger on his throwing hand and suffered a laceration,