Oklahoma coach Brent Venables has bad news.
Sooners injury report .
Andrell Anthony and McQuaid Mettauer are among the team’s leaders at their respective positions, and both lost to Texas on Saturday.
Oklahoma coach Brent Venables released the injury report after Monday night’s practice, and the news is not good.
Offensive guard McQuaid Mettauer left the Texas game with a protective boot on his left foot due to what Venables said was an ankle sprain, but “the best-case scenario is he’ll be back sooner rather than later.
” ,” Venables said.
But for top receiver Andrell Anthony, the news wasn’t all that hopeful.
Coach Venables said Anthony, who was sidelined in the fourth quarter with a foot injury, “requires season-ending surgery.
” “You hate him.
There are other players, but you hate it because of Andrell, the way he works.
We won 6-0 and he He played a huge role in us getting there.
But his best football is still ahead of him.
He’s going to have a great career after this operation is over.
“Good, he practiced today,” Venables said of cornerback Gentry Williams, who also attended the postgame press conference despite leaving the game in the fourth quarter with an injury.
Mettauer is a fifth-year player from the Houston area who has been a three-year starter after transferring from the University of California.
He has started every game at right guard this year and is among the team leaders in total snaps.
Anthony is a Detroit native who transferred from Michigan State.
He leads the Sooners with 429 receiving yards and is second with 27 catches.
The No.
5 ranked Sooners (6-0 overall, 3-0 in the Big 12 Conference) will open the season this Saturday after defeating the then No.
1 Sooners.
3 Texas 34-30 in the Cotton Bowl on Saturday.
Osaka University’s next match will be played at home in October.
On the 21st, they will face Big 12 newcomer UCF.
Mettauer, a Houston-area native, was replaced on Saturday by Kaleb Shafer, who transferred from Miami to Ohio State.
He posted a Pro Football Focus grade of 56.
0 against the Longhorns and has logged 55 snaps so far this year after playing nearly 2,300 snaps in Miami.
According to PFF, Mettauer played 414 offensive snaps this season and has 2,989 snaps in his career, including three seasons as a starter at Cal.
The 6-1, 192-pound Anthony has played 290 snaps for the Sooners this season, including 55 snaps against Texas, where he caught five passes for 42 yards.
As a junior and former starter for the Wolverines, Anthony played a total of 873 offensive snaps in college.
This season, he’s averaging 15.
9 yards per catch and a team-high 71 yards per game.
His production in the receiver corps may be difficult to replace, but the Sooners distribute the ball well, as seven different players have at least 10 receptions.
“I hate him,” said Venables, “but this gives other players an opportunity.
” He was an award-winning newspaper reporter for 31 years, the last four as a senior at the Tulsa World.
He has won awards as a sports columnist.
For six years, I had my own sports talk radio show in Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
Currently, I am a fan of Oklahoma His Nation/Sports Illustrated affiliate, which covers the Sooners, and publishes AllSooners.
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