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The Texas Tech football team wraps up the March and April portion of the off-season this coming week with the annual spring game in Midland. Then the Red Raiders will monitor the progress of players who missed all or most of spring practice.
Quarterback Behren Morton, wide receiver Micah Hudson and tight end Jalin Conyers are expected to be cleared by July 1, Tech coach Joey McGuire said Saturday after the team’s second scrimmage.
Morton, recovering from the grade-3 AC joint sprain he suffered in September, was shut down after six practices this spring. Conyers, with a broken foot, and Hudson, recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery, missed all of spring ball.
“All three of those guys, barring any setbacks, are expected to be cleared that first of July,” McGuire said. “Jalin and Micah went to the doctor this week, and they’re progressing great. Micah’s fired up because he’s getting to move around a lot and getting closer and closer to really running, and then Conyers got off his scooter and is now walking around, so it’s going to be good to have those guys back.”
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Defensive tackle James Hansen has missed all spring recovering from a calf strain. He’s a 6-foot-2, 315-pound senior who transferred from Nevada in January and is expected to be a rotation piece.
“(The injury) put him out four-plus weeks,” McGuire said. “He’s been training with the strength staff and everything. When you look at the timetable, if we played a game in July, like July 1, we’d have everybody — that’s fully released.
“I think there’s going to be some guys in June that are almost there. Like Micah, Jalin, Behren, they’re almost there, but they’re not there. We feel like coming into July is going…
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Publish date : 2024-04-14 00:31:58
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