Arizona State QB Jaden Rashada out against USC

ASU’s Day 1 starting QB this season won’t face USC.

Arizona State is beaten up as it prepares to face USC this coming Saturday, September 23.

ASU starting quarterback Jaden Rashada missed Saturday’s contest with Fresno State. He missed the game due to “something that has been lingering since high school that he re-aggravated” versus Oklahoma State in Week 2. He will mis four to six weeks with the injury, head coach Kenny Dillingham said after the Fresno State game.

Backup Trenton Bourguet took over the reins and was hurt on just the second possession of the night with a foot injury.

Then Notre Dame grad transfer Drew Pyne was also injured. He left the game with a different muscle injury in the same leg in which he hurt his hamstring.

After Arizona State’s first three quarterbacks on the depth chart went down, fourth-stringer Jacob Conover stepped in. He could start next week for the Sun Devils against USC.

Bourguet, Pyne and Conover combined for 188 yards on an abysmal 17-for-37 passing rate and didn’t score a single point against Fresno State, losing 29-0.

Offensive coordinator Beau Baldwin and head coach Kenny Dillingham will have their work cut out next week against one of the best offenses in the nation when the Sun Devils host the USC Trojans on Saturday night.

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