Buckley: Torn ACL? No problem. Tigers’ ‘RoboCop’ shreds Arkansas.
Memphis running back Sutton Smith breaks off a 64-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter against Arkansas. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Tim Buckley
Tim is a veteran sportswriter who graduated from CBHS in Memphis and the University of Missouri. He previously covered LSU sports in Baton Rouge, and the University of Louisiana football and basketball for The Daily Advertiser/USA TODAY Network in Lafayette, the NBA’s Utah Jazz for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, and West Texas State basketball for the Amarillo Globe News in Texas.
The last thing Sutton Smith wanted was for his 2024 season to end the way it did.
Right at the start, with a torn anterior cruciate ligament, on the first drive of the first game — a win over North Alabama.
But since it did happen that way, and with the benefit of hindsight, Smith evidently has become a big believer in the power of fate.
Because, truth be told, Sutton Smith post-injury is even better than the Sutton Smith that Sutton Smith recalls himself being pre-injury.
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