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Former Texas WR Jake Smith will not play for USC this season

USC head coach Clay Helton announced Jake Smith will be out for the season with a broken foot. He suffered the injury during Texas’ first spring practice.

When Jake Smith left Texas for USC, he became the fourth Longhorn to travel west to Los Angeles. Becoming an every-down wide receiver was the goal playing in offensive coordinator Graham Harrell’s air raid attack.

However, it seems Smith will not play a down this season. USC head coach Clay Helton announced the transfer will be shut down with a broken foot.

Smith suffered the injury during Texas’ first spring practice of the year. There was hope he could be ready for the beginning of the season but is now most likely going to need surgery.

Smith dealt with injuries last season as well, only appearing in seven games. He finished with 294 yards and three touchdowns on 23 receptions.

With the loss of Amon-Ra St. Brown, USC was going to have an opening at slot receiver. Colorado transfer K.D. Nixon (out of DeSoto High School) was going to compete for snaps at the position as well.

Now, Smith will work his way back onto the field to prepare for the 2022 season.

The former Gatorade National Player of the Year was a top recruit out of high school, ranking as the No. 77 overall prospect. Smith was projected as one of the next great wide receivers to come out of Texas but it never clicked with Tom Herman as the coach.

Steve Sarkisian never had a real opportunity to work with Smith before he departed for USC.

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Breaking: Cowboys CB Diggs suffers broken foot, 4-6 week time frame

The hits keep coming as the promising rookie will miss at least a month.

The hits keep coming for the Dallas Cowboys. Rookie corner Trevon Diggs, taken in the second round of the 2020 draft, had ascended to the team’s top cornerback this season. That season may be over after an injury in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s loss to the Pittsburgh Steelres.

Diggs suffered the injury and missed the final 16 snaps of the game. According to Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network, the injury is a fractured bone in his foot, and he’ll be out 4-6 weeks.

The Cowboys have a bye in Week 10, then seven games remaining. The timeline would put him back somewhere between Weeks 14 and 16, with 2-4 games remaining in the season. Though Rapoport indicates it could end the rookie’s season, the timeline says he could come back to gain additional experience as long as there’s no threat to further injury. Veterans may not come back but it makes sense a rookie could.

Diggs leads the Cowboys with two interceptions on the season, both coming in Week 8’s loss to the rival Philadelphia Eagles. They were incredible plays that show the heights Diggs can ascend to once he is able to find consistency in his play. He’s been targeted relentlessly in 2020, but the Cowboys have placed him against the game’s best receivers as Chidobe Awuzie has missed the majority of the year with a hamstring injury.

Dallas only has Diggs and Anthony Brown under contract for next season. Diggs and second-year safety Donovan Wilson appear to be two young players with a lot of future potential for the revamping Dallas secondary.

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What Notre Dame is getting as Kevin Austin returns

Notre Dame’s passing game hasn’t turned many heads early in 2020. Will Kevin Austin’s return to the lineup change that?

Entering the 2020 season Notre Dame’s wide receiver corps were viewed a lot like many see faith.  Despite not be able to actually see something, in this case production from the key cogs in a Notre Dame uniform, the belief was there that the group had a chance to be special.

It’s early and obviously a strange season that was pre-dated with truly unique circumstances, but through two games the receiving corps hasn’t exactly lived up to their pre-season billing.

That could start to change Saturday as No. 5 Notre Dame welcomes Florida State to South Bend however as the Irish will be getting what was supposed to be their best receiver in 2020 back to their roster in Kevin Austin, who broke his foot very early in fall camp.

The 6-2, 210 pound receiver has put up only five receptions for 90 yards in his Notre Dame career but could provide the game-breaking ability the position has lacked early this season.

“He’s explosive, rangy, has out standing ball skills and can open up the game as he can take the top off of coverages,” Brian Kelly said of Austin on Monday, “He can make a catch and go the distance and win one-on-one match-ups.”

Not that they’ve had to throw the ball over the yard two games in but Notre Dame has thrown for just over 200 yards per game and completed just one touchdown pass on the year.

Brian Kelly closed his thoughts on Austin by saying what quarterback Ian Book as well as Notre Dame fans all across the country are thinking:

“It will be nice to get him on the field for us.”

It’s also worth noting that graduate student Ben Skowronek will return to the lineup as well after playing just one half of football against Duke before suffering a hamstring injury that kept him out of the South Florida contest.

Seahawks rookie TE Colby Parkinson undergoes surgery for broken foot

Seattle Seahawks rookie tight end Colby Parkinson has undergone surgery for a broken foot he sustained over the 2020 NFL offseason.

The Seattle Seahawks’ tight end corps has taken yet another hit this offseason. Rookie tight end Colby Parkinson suffered a broken foot and has undergone surgery to repair the injury, according to NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport.

“Seahawks fourth-round pick TE Colby Parkinson suffered a broken fifth metatarsal in his foot while running a route this offseason, source said,” Rapoport tweeted. “The Stanford product had surgery on the Jones fracture on June 2 and has been in Seattle rehabbing the ailment.”

Rapoport did not provide further details on the injury, nor did he indicate when or where it occurred.

The Seahawks selected Parkinson in the fourth round of the 2020 NFL Draft out of Stanford to bolster a tight end group that was riddled with injuries last season.

No timeline was given for Parkinson’s recovery. The rookie now joins a growing list of players around the NFL who have suffered injuries during their offseason workouts away from team facilities.

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Seahawks DT Quinton Jefferson broke his foot against Packers

Seattle Seahawks defensive tackle Quinton Jefferson broke his foot against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, and will need surgery.

As he heads into free agency, Seattle Seahawks defensive tackle Quinton Jefferson will first have to take care of a broken foot, which he suffered in the team’s loss to the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Divisional Round.

“I think he broke his foot,” coach Pete Carroll said on Monday. “I think it’s the bone on the outside of his foot. He’s going to have to have surgery on that.”

Jefferson was a key contributor to Seattle’s depleted defensive front in 2019, appearing in 14 games and recording 26 combined tackles, 3.5 sacks, three passes defended and one fumble recovery.

Jefferson is set to hit free agency in his age 27 season, but it seems likely Seattle will attempt to bring him back. The former fifth round pick has been a versatile defensive lineman, capable of playing on the edge and on the interior and serving as both a pass rusher and a run stuffer.

Seattle will want to make sure his foot is healed, but a return seems plausible between the two sides as the team looks to shore up their defensive line ahead of the 2020 season.

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