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Draft Scout College Football Player Injury News & Notes
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No. 14 Iowa State's secondary will be without longtime starters Jontez Williams and Jeremiah Cooper the rest of the season because of knee injuries. Coach Matt Campbell announced Tuesday that Williams damaged the anterior cruciate ligament in his right k nee late in the Cyclones' 39-14 win over Arizona on Saturday. Cooper tore his ACL in practice last week. The two have combined for 55 starts.Williams, an Associated Press All-Big 12 second team pick in 2024, had one interception and two pass break ups this season. He was hurt with 3 minutes left against Arizona as he dove in an attempt to knock a ball away from a receiver. "So that's a situation that really stinks for the kid," Campbell said. "But, man, just how he's handled it has been uber impre ssive. And, a great human. He'll be back ready to rock and roll next year." Cooper has made 36 starts since 2022 and was an AP All-Big 12 first-team pick at safety in 2023. He switched to cornerback full-time this season and had an interception and three pass breakups through four games. Tre Bell, a transfer from Lindenwood, made his first start for the Cyclones in Cooper's place against Arizona. Quinten Taylor Jr., who played 26 snaps against Arizona, would be in line to make his first start when the C yclones (5-0, 2-0 Big 12) visit Cincinnati (3-1, 1-0) on Saturday. - AP College Football
rJr/2027  CB Jontez Williams, Iowa State
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No. 10 Alabama will be without starting outside linebacker Qua Russaw for "an extended period" with a broken foot, coach Kalen DeBoer said Monday. The sophomore suffered the injury early in a 24-21 win at Georgia on Saturday and was scheduled for surgery this week. He played just eight snaps against the Bulldogs, according to Pro Football Focus. "He won't be out for the season, but it will be an extended period of time," DeBoer said.Compounding injury issues at the position, senior linebacker Jah -Marien Latham has been ruled out for the remainder of the season. Latham, who was in his sixth and final year of college eligibility, suffered a neck injury in practice last week. It's unclear if he will pursue a medical redshirt, DeBoer said. "Jah-Mari en will recover fully," DeBoer said. "That's the main thing in the big picture of everything. But unfortunately won't be back this season." The expectation now is that sophomore Yhonzae Pierre will start at home against 16th-ranked Vanderbilt on Saturday . He has been a productive rotational player through four games, ranking second on the team in tackles for loss and recording four tackles against Georgia. - AP College Football
rSo/2028 OLB Qua Russaw, Alabama
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Gronowski left the game in the fourth quarter with an apparent lower leg injury. Gronowski, who transferred to Iowa after winning two FCS national championships at South Dakota State, was injured on a fourth-quarter run after completing 19 of 25 passes f or 144 yards. He was replaced by Hank Brown, who was 5 of 13 for 48 yards. - AP College Football
rSr/2026 QB Mark Gronowski, Iowa
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Auburn receiver Horatio Fields, who ranks third on the team with 12 receptions for 106 yards a touchdown this season, is sidelined indefinitely with a broken foot. Coach Hugh Freeze said the 6-foot-2 senior was injured in practice Tuesday. Fields transfe rred to Auburn this year after four years at Wake Forest. "Kind of the leader of that receiver room who knew every position and gave us flexibility to do a lot of things," Freeze said during the Southeastern Conference coaches conference call Wednesday. "And it's a difficult loss." Freeze said sophomore Perry Thompson is the next man up and will get a chance to fill Fields' role when the Tigers (3-1, 0-1 SEC) play at No. 9 Texas A&M (3-0, 0-0) on Saturday. "It's his time to show he's ready and to earn i t, and obviously we're getting Sam (Turner) prepared, too, to help," Freeze said. "Perry has the potential and talent to do really good things. "He's got to learn to do them consistently, over and over again, and with technique. He shows flashes of that. Now we just need it to be more consistent, but he'll be the first one to get that opportunity." - AP College Football
rSr/2026 WR Horatio Fields, Auburn
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Alabama linebacker Jah-Marien Latham was being evaluated at a hospital after a neck injury suffered in practice, coach Kalen DeBoer said Tuesday. Latham, a sixth-year senior, was hurt Tuesday. DeBoer said he was taken to a hospital in Birmingham but has "full feeling and motion." "He is currently undergoing a thorough medical assessment to determine the next steps in his recovery," DeBoer said. "Our top priority is Jah's health and well-being. We are in close contact with his family and the medical team and will continue to support him in every way possible. Further updates will be provided as appropriate." Latham played but left with a lower-body injury during the season-opening loss at Florida State. He has not played the past two games ahead of the No. 17 Crimson Tide's game at No. 5 Georgia on Saturday night. - AP College Football
rSr/2026 DE Jah-Marien Latham, Alabama
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Oklahoma quarterback John Mateer, one of the nation's top players in the early weeks of the season, will have surgery to repair an injury to his throwing hand. Oklahoma coach Brent Venables said Mateer, a transfer from Washington State who has led the So oners to wins over Top 25 teams Michigan and Auburn, will have the surgery on his right hand on Wednesday. He is expected to return this season. - AP College Football
rJr/2027 QB John Mateer, Oklahoma
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No. 23 Illinois will have to play most of the season without star cornerback Xavier Scott, coach Bret Bielema said Monday. Scott will undergo a procedure on Wednesday for the injury that caused him to miss a 63-10 loss at No. 11 Indiana last weekend, Bie lema said. Multiple reports have indicated Scott's injury is to his lower leg. "He will be out the majority of the rest of the year, but there's a chance he could come back at the end," Bielema said. Scott earned first-team Associated Press all-Big Ten h onors last season. He finished as one of 15 finalists for the Jim Thorpe Award. He intercepted four passes in 2024 and two in 2023. Scott's injury complicates Illinois' hopes of bouncing back from its blowout loss to Indiana as the Ilini (3-1, 0-1 Big Te n) prepare to host No. 21 Southern California (4-0, 2-0) on Saturday. USC quarterback Jayden Maiava leads all Bowl Subdivision players in passer rating and has thrown nine touchdown passes without an interception. - AP College Football
Sr/2026 CB Xavier Scott, Illinois
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Syracuse quarterback Steve Angeli will miss the remainder of the season with a torn left Achilles tendon, coach Fran Brown announced Monday, two days after the junior led the Orange to their most impressive win of the season. Angeli was scheduled to have surgery later in the day. Brown hoped the 21-year-old will recover in time for spring sessions. "A really good football player, a great person, just sad for him," Brown said of the Notre Dame transfer. "It's been a nice little journey with him for the t ime that we've had him to play, and I'm excited about the time when he comes back." Angeli was hurt on a noncontact play while rolling out of the pocket in the third quarter of a 34-21 win at Clemson. He finished 18 of 31 for 244 yards with two touchdown s before leaving the game with Syracuse leading 27-14.The injury leaves Syracuse (3-1, 1-0 ACC) turning to Rickie Collins to take over as the Orange prepare to host Duke (2-2, 1-0) on Saturday. "(Collins) was able to command the offense," Brown sa id of Collins' relief appearance against Clemson. "It just shows that you have to continue to have faith and work hard and things may fall your way." Collins was initially projected to be the Orange's starter after transferring to Syracuse this offseason following two years as a backup at LSU. Collins, however, was beaten out for the starting job by Angeli, who joined the program after spring practices. "It wasn't a huge difference of why we picked a guy," Brown said of the quarterback competition. "It took me some time to pick the quarterback, so I'm very thankful we had two." Brown said Angeli and Collins have developed a tight relationship and watch film together regularly. "No one deserves the opportunity more than (Collins) does," Brown said. "Jus t his mental toughness of understanding the fronts and everything of that nature. He already has a huge arm. He can make every throw." - AP College Football
rJr/2027 QB Steve Angeli, Syracuse
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WEEK 4 SEC CO-FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK: Jamison Curtis, LB, Vanderbilt,...Blocked a punt and returned it 4 yards for a touchdown in the Commodores' 70-21 win over Georgia State...Part of a unit that allowed just 18.5 yards per kickoff return...Helped the Dor es post a season-long 46-yard run back on their only kick return of the contest...Also aided in Vandy averaging nearly 13 yards per punt return against the Panthers. - SEC Football
rFr/2029 OLB Jamison Curtis, Vanderbilt
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Oklahoma QB John Mateer has at least one passing TD and one rushing TD in 10 straight games. It is the nation's longest active streak and tied for third-longest since 2000. - AP College Football
rJr/2027 QB John Mateer, Oklahoma
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Steve Angeli threw for 244 yards and two touchdowns before leaving with a lower leg injury, Justus Ross-Simmons hauled in two TD passes and Syracuse upset heavily-favored Clemson 34-21 on Saturday sending the Tigers to their worst start ever under coach Dabo Swinney. Angeli threw first half TD passes to Ross-Simmons and Darrell Gill Jr. while Will Nixon scored on a 9-yard run as the Orange (3-1, 1-0 ACC) built a 27-14 lead before Angeli left with a non-contact lower leg injury late in the third quarter after rolling out of the pocket. Rickie Collins added a touchdown pass in relief for Syracuse, which entered the game as a 17 1/2-point road underdog but never trailed. First-team preseason All-American Cade Klubnik struggled with accuracy and finding op en receivers once again despite finishing 37 of 60 passes for 363 yards and three touchdowns for Clemson, which started 1-3 for the first time since 2004 when Swinney was the Tigers wide receivers coach under Tommy Bowden. Adam Randall added 130 yards ru shing and a touchdown and Bryant Wesco Jr. had two TD catches for the Tigers (1-3, 0-2), who began the season ranked No. 4 in the nation but have seen their national championship hopes evaporate in the first four weeks of the season. Syracuse took full a dvantage of two first-half gambles by coach Fran Brown and three costly Clemson penalties to build a 24-14 halftime lead.After Angeli completed a 12-yard touchdown pass to a leaping Ross-Simmons on the game's first possession, Brown caught Clemson off guard with an onside kick and Syracuse recovered. Brown then gambled again going for it on fourth and 3 near midfield and succeeded again, leading to a field goal giving the Orange a 10-0 lead before Clemson's offense stepped on the field. Klubnik t hrew TDs to Wesco and Randall in the first half, but Syracuse matched the Tigers offensive output with Nixon scoring on a 9-yard run off an inside handoff and Angeli finding Gill in the right corner of the end zone on a perfectly-placed pass for a 22-yar d score. Clemson had a chance to cut the lead to seven before halftime but Wesco dropped a pass near the sideline with 5 seconds left that would have allowed the Tigers to get into field goal range. Instead Klubnik's Hail Mary heave to end the half was i ncomplete. Johntay Cook II had five catches for 113 yards and Yasin Willis added 94 yards on the ground for Syracuse. Halftime lasted more than two hours due to a lightning delay. - Syracuse/AP College Football
rJr/2027 QB Steve Angeli, Syracuse
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Michigan State starting linebacker Wayne Matthews has been taken off the Coliseum field on a cart after getting hurt while making a tackle in the Spartans' game against No. 25 Southern California on Saturday night. Matthews was hurt while tackling USC ru nning back Waymond Jordan in the red zone with 42 seconds left in the second quarter. Matthews' teammates signaled for help from the sideline after he didn't get up from a pile of players, and Michigan State's medical personnel immediately tended to Matt hews on the field.Matthews, whose jersey was cut off on the field, was eventually loaded onto a backboard and a cart while players from both teams watched reverently. The linebacker appeared to give a thumbs-up to his teammates before he was drive n across the field and up the Coliseum tunnel. The Spartans gathered for a team prayer huddle before they continued the game. Matthews is a fifth-year senior who spent his first three collegiate seasons at Old Dominion before joining Michigan State last year. He had two tackles against USC, giving him 26 in the Spartans' first four games. Michigan State's other starting linebacker, Jordan Hall, was ejected in the second quarter for targeting. USC scored on the first play after Matthews' injury and event ually took a 24-10 lead into halftime. - AP College Football
rSr/2026 OLB Wayne Matthews III, Michigan State
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Bryson Barnes threw for 293 yards and three touchdowns and rushed for 128 yards and two touchdowns as Utah State cruised by McNeese, 48-7 on Saturday night. Miles Davis added 118 yards rushing and a score for the Aggies (3-1), who rushed for 334 yards an d had 627 yards of total offense. Utah State scored efficiently and in bunches, with every scoring drive lasting under four minutes. They also scored multiple touchdowns in under two minutes on two separate instances in the first half.Barnes conne cted with Davis on a 45-yard touchdown pass, and had another long heave to Boyd for 53 yards just five plays later. Late in the second, Barnes added his first rushing score, and Javen Jacobs punched in another less than one minute later. McNeese managed two drives that lasted more than five plays, both coming in the second half and ending without scoring plays. Tre'Vonte Citizen led the Cowboys (1-3) with 71 yards rushing. - Utah State/AP College Football
rSr/2026 QB Bryson Barnes, Utah State
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Syracuse quarterback Steve Angeli has left the Orange's game against Clemson following a non-contact injury to his lower leg in the third quarter. Angeli rolled out of the pocket and then went down without being hit by a Clemson player. He appeared in pa in and and was helped off the field by trainers and replaced by Rickie Collins, who quickly threw a touchdown pass to Justus Ross-Simmons to extend Syracuse's lead to 34-14. Syracuse entered the game as a 17 1/2-point road underdog. Angeli was 18 of 31 f or 244 yards with two touchdown passes before leaving the game. - AP College Football
rJr/2027 QB Steve Angeli, Syracuse
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Texas Tech quarterback Behren Morton took a big hit on the run and was ruled out of the 17th-ranked Red Raiders' game against No. 16 Utah on Saturday. Morton's helmet slammed on the turf after he slid head first into contact with Utah linebacker Johnatha n Hall during his team's opening drive of the third quarter. Officials reviewed the play for targeting but deemed it a clean hit by Hall.A member of the Texas Tech medical staff escorted Morton to the locker room to be evaluated for a potential co ncussion. Backup quarterback Will Hammond took over for Morton on the Red Raiders' next drive. Morton exited for a couple of plays in the first half after getting shaken up on a hard hit from Utah defensive end John Henry Daley. He threw for 142 yards wi th two interceptions on 12-of-19 passing. Texas Tech led 10-3 when he was ruled out. Morton entered Saturday having passed for 923 yards and 11 touchdowns in his first three games. - AP College Football
rSr/2026 QB Behren Morton, Texas Tech
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