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K-State trying not to let injuries derail season before it starts
The Kansas State Wildcats are dealing with a string of key injuries as best they can, but time is running out before the game really start to count.
K-State has won its first two games by a combined score of 64-3, but the competition has been lower-tier and on Saturday the Wildcats will probably move to 3-0 after a home date with Louisiana Tech. It hardly means everything is going just swimmingly for the Wildcats. Because it's not. Key injuries are plaguing K-State with one game left before the Big 12 schedule kicks in at Oklahoma State on Oct. 3.
Offensive lineman Boston Stiverson hasn't played yet, although there were encouraging signs last week since he was in uniform. Quarterback Jesse Ertz suffered a season-ending knee injury on the first play of the first game. Senior strong safety Dante Barnett has what is believed to be a shoulder or collarbone injury.
As if that wasn't bad enough, place kicker Matthew McCrane got injured in last week's game and did not return.
K-State does not announce injuries, so the status of all of those players is uncertain for Saturday's game.
"I don’t know if you ever get comfortable with that — at least I don’t,” Snyder said Monday on the Big 12 teleconference. “It’s not unique or new. It certainly is a concern when anybody gets hurt, regardless of what your depth is. Young guys work so hard and diligently to prepare themselves and to have it taken away with an injury is normally a sad thing.
"Like all coaches and all players, you just move on and that's what we do and what everybody else does."
(h/t Topeka Capital-Journal)
