Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Unluck of the Irish: Notre Dame DB hurt celebrating

Published Sep. 19, 2015 5:37 p.m. ET

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Just when you thought Notre Dame's injury woes couldn't get much worse against Georgia Tech, this happens:

#NotreDame with another player injured. This time it's DB Drue Tranquill hurt.. injured while celebrating.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) September 19, 2015

Sophomore safety Drue Tranquill appeared to injure his knee on the play and was taken to the locker room for further evaluation. Here's video of the play:

#FightingIrish #NotreDame http://t.co/2K7Aswmyzl Notre Dame's DrueTranquillinjures knee celebrating incomplete pass (Video)
— Fighting Irish #1! (@NOTREDAMENO1) September 19, 2015

The video of Drue Tranquill's injury is just hard to watch. Brutal. http://t.co/8PAJL3vgUG pic.twitter.com/ZAupGqZSrU
— Isaac (@WorldofIsaac) September 19, 2015

DrueTranquillon the sideline, still in uniform and helmet but with crutches and right knee wrapped pic.twitter.com/JRcOGz7bW8
— Mary Green (@MaryEGreen15) September 19, 2015

Fighting Irish coach Brian Kelly said while it was too early to know how bad the injury is, he wasn't optimistic.

This is just the latest in a series of unfortunate injures suffered by the Irish. In the last week alone, Notre Dame has lost both its starting quarterback and starting tight end to season-ending injuries and has lost a number of running backs only two weeks into the season.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.