It would appear the football-playing career of Georgia wide receiver Justin Scott-Wesley is over, but that does not mean he is stepping away from the game entirely. According to his high school football coach, Scott-Wesley is weighing his options with regard to football and may ultimately decide to stop playing.
“The vibe I got from him was that decision may have been out of frustration,” Dondrial Pinkins, Scott-Wesley’s high school coach, told the Athens Banner-Herald. “He’s in the process of talking (to trainers) about how he’s going to respond to the rehab. After that, he’ll see how he feels. If he’s able to play, he may play or he may just sit out. At this moment it’s all dependent on how his body feels.”
While playing and practicing may be out of the mix for now, Scott-Wesley appears to be staying with the team in some capacity. In an Instagram post, Scott-Wesley shared a photo of him appearing to be working as a student coach with the Bulldogs.
“When one door closes, another opens!” the Instagram post reads. “Blessed for the opportunity to learn and teach.”
Scott-Wesley left a Georgia football practice earlier this month after sustaining an injury to his right knee. The injury happened despite a lack of contact, which is always a scary situation. In 2013 Scott-Wesley suffered a torn ACL in his right knee and later underwent surgery to repair a torn meniscus in July.