When Notre Dame suits up to host South Florida on Saturday we know they’ll officially be without graduate-transfer Ben Skowronek on the receiver depth chart as Brian Kelly officially ruled him out during media availability on Thursday.
Skowronek is nursing a hamstring injury he sustained in the season-opening win over Duke and won’t be available Saturday according to Kelly.
Kelly also gave the latest on star safety Kyle Hamilton, who he called day-to-day. Kelly said that Hamilton is in a PPT program (Prayers and Personal Thoughts) after suffering an ankle injury against Duke that looked a lot more severe than it seems to have wound up being.
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Other injury news for the Fighting Irish featured speedster Braden Lenzy who had a hamstring flare up and keep him out against Duke. Kelly stated that Lenzy “looked good after practice”.
And finally wide receiver Kevin Austin who broke his foot early in training camp has progressed far enough to be out of a boot. His six week scan showed “good signs” he’s now starting to run. No estimate on a return to game action was given.
Notre Dame kicks off their second game of the season against South Florida at 2:30 p.m. ET Saturday and will showed on USA as NBC will be showing coverage of the third round of the US Open.