Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst rolls with the punches, even after a big one at the quarterback position

Wisconsin is a hotspot right now with a 16% positivity rate of COVID-19 in the past week, and that puts Paul Chryst in a unique position. The Wisconsin Badgers football coach – who is expected to be in control of everything in his program – arguably has little control at all in a pandemic football season. Case in point was the weekend revelation thatabout ourthe long awaited messiah – er, redshirt freshman Graham Mertz – who finally made his collegiate debut and was one dropped ball away from a perfect game. Carving up Lovie Smith’s Illinois defense, Mertz played like a Heisman Trophy winner and then got a positive mark back on his rapid coronavirus test the next day. Because that's so 2020.