Yet another blow to Oklahoma’s offense
It’s been a rough year already for the Oklahoma Sooners. First tight end Jermaine Gresham, a likely All-American, was lost for the year before playing a single game. Then reigning Heisman winner Sam Bradford suffered a separated shoulder in the season opener and hasn’t played since.
The latest injury to strike the Sooners, who are most certainly out of the national title picture after Saturday’s loss to Miami, is to WR Ryan Broyles, who will miss two to four weeks with a broken left shoulder blade suffered in the loss to the Canes.
That means OU is minus its best receiver with Big 12 play starting Saturday at Baylor – bet on the game at WagerWeb.com. And of course the big game with Texas is in two weeks, meaning Broyles won’t be able to play then either.
Broyles leads the Sooners (2-2) with 23 catches for 346 yards and seven touchdowns this season (which was leading the nation; all of OU’s other receivers have four total TDs this year). He had also been the team’s top punt returner. Coach Bob Stoops originally said Broyles, hurt on the second play from scrimmage Saturday, would be out of the lineup four to six weeks, but called the injury a “light fracture” on Monday.
His departure robs the Sooners of their top deep threat and one of their few receivers who can stretch the field vertically. Gresham and Broyles are the only two receivers off last year’s offense who played much at all. They combined for 112 catches, 1,637 yards and 20 touchdowns in 2008.
Cameron Kenney will be the No. 1 WR now; he had six receptions against Miami. Tight end has all but disappeared out of the Oklahoma offense after Gresham’s injury.
Meanwhile, Bradford was to practice again on Monday as the team hopes he can return this week.
“Until you see them progress you don’t know. Until you get out there and work it, you don’t know,” Stoops said. “Everybody keeps asking the same question and the answer is impossible to give.”
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