From the Bronx to the brink of a natty, Grant Wilson is the secret sauce in Indiana's QB room
The Guy Behind The Guy Behind The Guy
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — The Guy Behind The Guy Behind The Guy, that’s what we’ll call him.
For Grant Wilson, the path to college football glory would be a modern 21st Century tale:
Start at an FCS school.
Start at a Group of 5 school.
Start at a Power 4 school.
He’s had six years of college already, on the brink of two degrees. He’s petitioned the NCAA for a seventh. Curt Cignetti thinks he’ll get it.
Why wouldn’t Wilson want to extend this joyride, especially at Indiana?
He knew what he was getting into, even if that initial timeline he charted for himself out of high school didn’t exactly go according to plan.
He didn’t know what he would get out of the Hoosiers, whom he said will welcome him back for 2026 as a member of the coaching staff if that eligibility waiver gets denied.
After all, he’s already had experience coaching one Heisman winner. Why not go for a repeat next season?
It’s never easy to take a backseat, and it’s even harder to do that when you have already played a lot of football. Here was Wilson, though, committing to Indiana last January, more than a week after the Hoosiers had already landed Fernando Mendoza.
His mission?
“They kind of told me my role was going to be a leader in the quarterback room and to help Fernando be the best that he can be,” Wilson told The Inside Zone. “And I was fine with that, because I want to be a coach. So I probably figured this was the right step.”
