Texas Football: Keondre Coburn could miss rest of game with ankle injury
A big loss for the defensive line for this Texas football team could be looming against the West Virginia Mountaineers with DT Keondre Coburn injured.
It’s a big game weekend for fourth-year Texas football head coach Tom Herman and his team yet again. On the morning of Nov. 7, Texas kicked off against the improving West Virginia Mountaineers and second-year former Troy Trojans head coach Neal Brown. Both Texas and West Virginia came into this game with a record of 4-2 (3-2 Big 12).
Texas is coming off a huge win that took a lot of pressure off the shoulders of Herman last weekend, over the previously No. 6 ranked and undefeated Oklahoma State Cowboys and longtime head coach Mike Gundy. Texas got the win over Oklahoma State on the road back on Oct. 31 by the final score of 41-34 in overtime.
Meanwhile, West Virginia came into this game off a nice win themselves over the previously No. 16 ranked Kansas State Wildcats by the convincing final score of 37-10. Both Texas and West Virginia are technically still well alive in the race to land a spot in the Big 12 Championship Game, so this one means a lot.
But the injury problems for the Longhorns started to mount early and often. The most significant injury for the Longhorns in the front seven early in this game came to redshirt sophomore sizable 6-foot-2 and 350 pound defensive tackle Keondre Coburn. It looks like Coburn came up limping with an ankle injury in the first half.
This would, quite literally, be a huge loss for the Longhorns today. https://t.co/BYKzvafG1l
— Burnt Orange Nation (@BON_SBNation) November 7, 2020
Coburn had to be quickly taken back to the locker room, and he could miss the rest of the West Virginia game dealing with this ankle injury. If he does miss the rest of this game, it’s a huge loss for first-year defensive coordinator/safeties coach Chris Ash up front.
Missing the rest of this game will give a heavier workload to the likes of freshman Alfred Collins and sophomore T’Vondre Sweat in the trenches. Texas isn’t extraordinarily deep or proven at the defensive/nose tackle position this year.
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On the season so far, Coburn has registered 17 total tackles, two tackles for loss, and one pass deflection, through six games played. Texas kicked off against West Virginia on the morning of Nov. 7, at 11 a.m. CT at home at DKR.