Keaton Wilkerson begins his second season as a graduate assistant with Wyoming Football and his fifth overall year as part of the Cowboy Football program, having begun as a student assistant in July of 2018. Wilkerson was Wyoming’s Defensive Quality Control Graduate Assistant in 2021 and will be a Defensive Graduate Assistant Coach in 2022.
        As a graduate assistant in 2021, Wilkerson worked with the defensive line coaches in preparing for practices, creating practice plans and compiling scouting materials on upcoming opponents to provide to the Cowboy coaching staff as they prepared game plans. He was also involved in providing information to the coaching staff on game days.
        During his time as a student assistant at Wyoming from 2018-20, Wilkerson was involved in a wide variety of tasks. He did everything from signaling in defensive calls during practices, to breaking down film on upcoming opponents, to producing weekly scouting reports for coaches that were then provided to Cowboy players, to assisting position coaches in practices with on-field drills and producing Scout Team cards that were used in practices to help educate Cowboy players on opponents’ plays.
        Wilkerson was the salutatorian of his Thunder Basin High School graduating class of 2018 in Gillette, Wyo. An outstanding high school player himself, Wilkerson played in the 2018 Wyoming Shrine Bowl Game as a safety. He earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration with a minor in management from the University of Wyoming in December of 2020. After graduation from UW, he briefly served as a graduate assistant coaching the tight ends at Chadron State College in Chadron, Neb., for the spring semester of 2021, but he was quickly hired back by the Wyoming coaching staff in the fall of 2021 as a graduate assistant with Cowboy Football.
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