Indiana Hoosiers defensive end Stephen Daley thought his college career ended in December when he suffered a season-ending knee injury during the Big Ten championship postgame celebration.
Now, he's back.
Four days after a U.S. District Court judge in Colorado ruled high school players from the 2022 graduating class could play their fifth college season, Daley returned to the practice field for the defending national champions. He'll be limited in early workouts, but coach Curt Cignetti remains hopeful it won't take one of the nation's most disruptive defensive linemen in 2025 long to get back to full speed.
"He looks pretty good. He's on a modified program where he'll dress out for practice, participate in some individual right now, no 11-on-11, and then get with the strength and conditioning staff, who will bring him along until they feel confident he's ready to go," Cignetti said Wednesday after the team's first summer practice. "I don't think it's going to be real, real long because he was training to be ready for next year in the (National Football) League, so it looks like he's in pretty good shape."
Daley's return solidifies what was already expected to be a deep, experienced, talented group of defensive linemen.

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