It was a drill Andrew Guthrie had done at nearly every practice of his football career. He would hand the ball off to the running back, flip his hip and fake a throw to the receiver on the backside of the formation.

Only this time, at last Wednesday’s practice, his right foot caught in the turf, and his knee made a sound no athlete wants to hear — a loud pop.

“I kind of hobbled off the field and went over to the bench,” Guthrie said. “I kind of knew something was up.”

The Summit senior quarterback, who is committed to play football at Northern Arizona University, learned the next day that he had torn his right meniscus, ending his season with two games left in the regular season, just as Summit was preparing for another postseason run.

The silver lining is that the injury was not to his ACL, which would have meant a much longer recovery.

Guthrie, last year’s Intermountain Conference Offensive Player of the Year and a first-team all-state quarterback, finished his season with 946 yards, 10 touchdowns and…