Tennessee’s first injury update of the week brought a mixed picture heading into Saturday’s trip to Texas A&M.
The good news for the eighth-ranked Vols: tight end DaSaahn Brame was not listed on Wednesday night’s SEC availability report after leaving the Kentucky win. The bad news: Tennessee added another season-ending injury, with sack leader Tyree Weathersby going down with a knee injury.
That leaves Tennessee with seven players on the report, and all seven are listed as out after being unavailable for several straight games. The Vols will release two more availability reports before kickoff - Thursday night and Friday night, with the latter coming after the team travels to Texas - before the final game-day update arrives 90 minutes before the 3 p.m.
ESPN kickoff. Tennessee is 7-2 overall and 4-2 in the SEC, while Texas A&M enters at 4-5 and 1-5.
It will be Tennessee’s first game at Kyle Field since 2016.
Texas A&M’s first report of the week listed starting guard Trovon Baugh as doubtful and star wide receiver Mario Craver as questionable.
Brame’s status had been in question after he exited the 34-6 win over Kentucky in the third quarter. On the play, George MacIntyre delivered a strong throw on a wheel route up the sideline, and Brame nearly hauled in a touchdown before the ball came loose as he hit the ground and took contact from the defender. The sophomore tight end initially secured the catch, got both feet down in bounds and held the ball to the turf before it was jarred loose.
It was the third straight game in which the 6-foot-5, 240-pound former top-100 recruit had a touchdown chance slip away. He dropped a touchdown pass against Alabama, and against South Carolina he scored on a 35-yard catch and run that was wiped out by penalty.
Josh Heupel said officials told him they reviewed the play, even though there was no official stoppage for a review.
“DaSaahn’s doing good,” Heupel said Monday night on “The Mike Keith Show” with The Voice of the Vols. “We feel like he’ll be in a great spot for game day. When I was talking with the officials, we haven’t gotten the report back postgame yet - that typically happens in the middle of the week - but at the end of the day, he didn’t come down with the football.
“Didn’t maintain control of it when he was on the ground, so that was the ruling that they gave me.”
Weathersby’s injury came in the third quarter against Kentucky, when he suffered a non-contact knee injury and became the eighth Tennessee player to be lost for the season.
“I hate it for Tyree,” Heupel said Monday at his weekly press conference. “He’s played extremely well.
He’s worked extremely hard. Was playing his best football.
I know he’ll bounce back from it, but obviously a huge bump in the road for him.”
Before Weathersby, Tennessee had already lost seven players for the season: Miami transfer cornerback Jadais Richard, who was hurt in the offseason with an upper-body injury; starting safety Edrees Farooq, who tore his patellar tendon in preseason camp; sophomore linebacker Jaedon Harmon, who tore his ACL in preseason camp; wide receiver Joakim Dodson, who injured his right leg on a kickoff return against Furman; starting tight end Ethan Davis, who tore his ACL against Georgia Tech; backup safety Dylan Lewis, who hurt his foot against Kennesaw State; and starting left guard Wendell Moe Jr., who suffered a lower-leg injury against Texas.
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