Texas Football: Jordan Whittington will miss a good while with injury

Redshirt freshman Texas football wide receiver Jordan Whittington looks like he’s dealing with yet another serious injury.

It seems like the injury bug continues to bite the Texas football program heading out of the bye week with another key player. Heading into the Oct. 24 home contest against head coach Dave Aranda and the Baylor Bears, fourth-year Texas head coach Tom Herman looks like he will be without the former elite five-star Cuero recruit and redshirt freshman wide receiver Jordan Whittington.

For pretty much all of his true freshman campaign, Whittington was out while dealing with a sports hernia injury. Whittington already went through another injury problem earlier this season, having to get surgery to repair a small tear in his meniscus from the Longhorns win over the UTEP Miners at home in the season opener back on Sep. 12.

According to a report from Horns247 on the night of Oct. 18, the Longhorns will be without Whittington for “some time” while dealing with “an abdominal, soft-tissue injury”. Apparently the injury to Whittington came in the Longhorns loss in the annual Red River Rivalry game back on Oct. 10 to the Oklahoma Sooners.

A good portion of the football career of Whittington over the course of the last three years (dating back to his time with the Cuero High School football program) has been plagued by injuries. And this sports hernia seems to be of a similar nature to the one he’s dealing with now. But the meniscus tear was one of a very different nature.

Moreover, there’s no clear timeline for when Whittington will return for the Longhorns. But it isn’t likely it seems that the Longhorns will get him back at any point in the near future. To round out the month of October, Texas is set to take on Baylor at home on Oct. 24 and then the No. 6 ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys on the road in Stillwater on Oct. 31.

To take over in the place of Whittington, the slot wide receiver duties will fall mostly to sophomore Jake Smith and graduate transfer Brenden Schooler. Since it sounds like they’ll be without the ultra-talented second-year skill position threat Whittington, they’ll have to find answers elsewhere.

Whittington registered 125 total yards from scrimmage on 13 touches, with no touchdowns, in two games played before this latest injury. Of those, 110 were receiving yards on 12 catches, good for just north of nine yards per reception.