Known Injuries:
QB: starter injured
RB: Bernard, Curry, Glover, Jackson
WR: Healthy (why wouldn’t they be? LOL)
TE: Kuithe, Kincaid
OL: Not sure here, I’m sure there are at least two that I don’t remember though.
DL: Fillinger (our #1 DE)
LB: Healthy ish (not sure if Diabate is 100%)
S: Healthy I think
CB: Phillips (did he play the other night?)
Dang, almost every one of our main offensive contributors, outside of Vele, has missed at least one game. I can remember a time not long ago when an injury to our starting RB meant the only way we were going to score points was off of turnovers and short field goals resulting from turnovers that didn’t get taken to the house.
Yes, I know UA and WSU aren’t the teams they used to be, but it is clear that our depth is at P5 level now. It’s nice knowing we are in any Pac12 game, regardless of who gets injured.
All that being said, I would be supremely confident if we were going into Autzen with a healthy Rising, Kincaid, and Thomas… Unfortunately, none of those 3 are anywhere close to 100% right now. Hopefully that changes.