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With just a week until Auburn welcomes Kentucky to Jordan-Hare Stadium to start the 2020 season, Auburn is hoping to have the full team ready to go Saturday.
Auburn had zero positive COVID-19 tests last week, despite the SEC’s guidelines now requiring three tests per week.
Eight of Auburn’s players remined out of practice due to positive tests and contact tracing from a week ago. According to Gus Malzahn, all eight of those players should be able to return to practice Tuesday.
This is great news for Auburn as other teams have been forced to cancel or postpone games due to outbreaks. If Auburn can avoid any positives in the week, they will not only be able to start the season Saturday, they will get to do so with the whole team ready because the team has been “very fortunate” in regard to injuries.
“We’ve been very fortunate, I think, as far as any major injuries,” Malzahn said Friday. “We’ve put the ball down and we’ve played old-school football a whole lot, so we’ve been pretty fortunate as far as that goes. We are pretty banged up in a few areas, but our goal has been, by Tuesday of next week, hope everyone is healthy and ready to go. Hopefully that will happen.”
While minor injuries and COVID-19 have forced players to miss time during camp, avoiding any major injuries or outbreaks is undoubtably a positive and bodes well for the Tigers to play football Saturday.