Texas Football: Joshua Moore reportedly injures ankle at practice

Bad news arrived for Texas football and redshirt junior wide receiver Joshua Moore this week in the midst of practice leading up to a key Big 12 meeting this coming weekend. According to a brief Horns247 post on the night of Sep. 29, Moore came up with an ankle injury in practice this week.

This report notes that the severity of the injury to Moore is unclear at the moment, and it will be further evaluated ahead of the matchup against the TCU Horned Frogs on the road on Oct. 2. Texas needs as much help as it can get to face the stingy Horned Frogs and head coach Gary Patterson in Fort Worth. TCU is a team that knocked off the Longhorns in six of the last seven meetings between these two squads.

Beating TCU on the road won’t be an easy feat for the Longhorns either. It also won’t help that Texas tape on them against Big 12 competition from last weekend’s conference opener in a dominant win over the Texas Tech Red Raiders.

Meanwhile, it’s hard to tell what TCU team will show up this coming weekend in their Big 12 opener this season against Texas.

Texas football WR Joshua Moore reportedly injured his ankle in practice this week

TCU is coming off a tough one-possession loss at the hands of the cross metroplex rival SMU Mustangs last weekend. That team will surely have a chip on their shoulder against Texas this coming weekend.

It will be interesting to see the impact that this ankle injury for Moore will have for the matchup against TCU. He’s experienced some injury troubles in his college career, but nothing too extreme.

Moore did not have the impact anticipated at the outset of this season. And a once-solid connection with redshirt junior quarterback Casey Thompson hasn’t rejuvenated Moore’s numbers four games into this season.

Through four games this season, Moore registered seven catches for 63 receiving yards and no touchdowns. His best individual game came in last weekend’s 35-point win over Texas Tech, but he still only had 25 receiving yards.

As the wideout duo of redshirt sophomore Jordan Whittington and true freshman Xavier Worthy have come to the forefront of late, Moore has fallen somewhat into the shadows. His production took a real dip compared to where he was through four games last season.

Moore had 328 receiving yards and six touchdowns through the first four games of the 2020 campaign.

If Moore is limited in any way this weekend it will likely give more work to Marcus Washington. The former four-star recruit Washington was starting to get more work anyway this fall, so it wouldn’t be surprising at all to see him get more reps against TCU no matter the situation of Moore’s ankle injury.

There is a lot of bad news coming down for the Longhorns receiving corps on this day. Texas also figured out on Sep. 29 that former four-star recruit and redshirt freshman wideout Troy Omeire will miss the rest of the season as he’s getting a knee procedure done.