SEC Week 8 Injury Report: Whit Weeks questionable, Alabama and Tennessee dealing with key absences

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By Chris Marler

Wednesday’s availability report for this Saturday’s SEC matchups has been released. It will be updated once again on Thursday and then a final time Friday evening. Here’s a look at the report submitted by each team.

LSU

OUT

DE #19 Gabriel Reliford

DOUBTFUL

DL #88 Bernard Gooden

QUESTIONABLE

DE #12 Jimari Butler

LB #40 Whit Weeks

PROBABLE

WR #1 Aaron Anderson

OL #65 Paul Mubenga

Vanderbilt

OUT

QB #7 Drew Dickey

RB #13 Chase Gillespie

DB #33 Vanzale Hinton

LB #40 Jamison Curtis

DOUBTFUL

CB #0 Marlon Jones

DL #5 Yilanan Ouattara

S #39 Brail Lipford

QUESTIONABLE

DL #93 Nikhil Jefferson

DL #95 Linus Zunk

PROBABLE

LB #10 Langston Patterson

Hunt Palmer dives into the LSU-Vanderbilt matchup here. The biggest surprise from an injury standpoint is that Whit Weeks is questionable. There are still two days left, but last week Aaron Anderson was the only player with that same designation from the LSU side, and he did not play against South Carolina.

Oklahoma at South Carolina

Oklahoma

OUT

OL #52 Troy Everett

OL #76 Jacob Sexton

OL #79 Jake Taylor

DOUBTFUL

WR #9 Keontez Lewis

TE #19 Kade McIntyre

OL #71 Logan Howland

QUESTIONABLE

RB #2 Jovantae Barnes

South Carolina

DOUBTFUL

OL #62 Nolan Hay

OL #72 Shedrick Sarratt Jr.

OL #75 Cason Henry

QUESTIONABLE

OL #58 Markee Anderson

DL #99 Gabriel Brownlow-Dindy

PROBABLE

DB #15 Brandon Cisse

It looks like Brandon Cisse should be good to go against Oklahoma which is a big boost to the Gamecock secondary. He was in street clothes for the second half of last week’s game against LSU. The downside is that this offensive life could be without four starters against one of the best defensive fronts in America.

Ole Miss at Georgia

Ole Miss

QUESTIONABLE

RB #22 Logan Diggs

S #31 Ladarian Clardy

WR #88 Devin Price

Georgia

OUT

TE #9 Ethan Barbour

WR #11 Talyn Taylor

DB #31 Kyron Jones

OL #51 Malachi Toliver

WR #88 Thomas Blackshear

PROBABLE

OL #71 Earnest Greene III

OL #73 Juan Gaston

Georgia got some good news with two offensive lineman being potentially ready to go against Ole Miss. The bad news: they’re going against an Ole Miss team that has been one of the healthiest in the conference all year.

Texas A&M at Arkansas

Texas A&M

OUT

RB #8 Le’Veon Moss

QUESTIONABLE

TE #21 Kiotti Armstrong

Arkansas

OUT

DB #8 Quentavius Scandrett

WR #11 Monte Harrison

WR #16 Ismael Cisse

WR #17 Jalen Brown

RB #20 AJ Green

TE #33 Jeremiah Beck Jr.

TE #81 Andreas Paaske

DL #88 Danny Saili

DL #92 David Oke

Texas A&M will most likely be without running back Le’Veon Moss. The loss should be minimal this week with the Aggies facing the most porous defense in the conference.

Mississippi State at Florida

Mississippi State

OUT

RB #24 Fluff Bothwell

DL #43 Will Whitson

OL #53 Brennan Smith

OL #54 Blake Steen

QUESTIONABLE

S #2 Isaac Smith

OL #76 Albert Reese IV

Florida

OUT

RB #5 Treyaun Webb

EDG #11 LJ McCray

DB #13 Aaron Gates

RB #20 Duke Clark

DB #27 Dijon Johnson

DL #88 Caleb Banks

QUESTIONABLE

DB #14 Jordan Castell

RB #24 Ja’Kobi Jackson

DB #25 Cormani McClain

DL #33 Brien Taylor Jr.

OL #57 Devon Manuel

TE #86 Tony Livingston

Mississippi State has become one of the trendiest upset picks of the weekend especially with the news of Billy Napier potentially being fired win or lose this weekend. However, being without Fluff Bothwell is a blow to an offense that’s coming off a bye week and looking for their first SEC win in 724 days.

Texas at Kentucky

Texas

OUT

WR #14 Aaron Butler

LB #37 Jonathan Cunningham

OL #54 Cole Hutson

DOUBTFUL

RB #4 CJ Baxter

QUESTIONABLE

DB #17 Xavier Filsaime

OL #79 Connor Stroh

DL #98 Maraad Watson

Kentucky

OUT

RB #10 Jamarion Wilcox

OLB #16 Jacob Smith

DB #21 Nasir Addison

ILB #32 Devin Smith

DL #55 Nic Smith

WR #82 David Washington Jr.

TE #85 Elijah Brown

QUESTIONABLE

WR #0 Troy Stellato

OL #53 Aba Selm

PROBABLE

DB #24 Jaden Smith

Tennessee at Alabama

Tennessee

OUT

DB #1 Rickey Gibson III

WR #1 Travis Smith Jr.

DB #3 Jermod McCoy

WR #5 Radarious Jackson

OUT – 1ST HALF

LB #13 Edwin Spillman

QUESTIONABLE

TE #0 Ethan Davis

PROBABLE

RB #18 DeSean Bishop

Alabama

OUT

LB #4 Qua Russaw

LB #20 Jah-Marien Latham

LB #30 Cayden Jones

WR #30 Derek Meadows

DL #92 Jeremiah Beaman

QUESTIONABLE

WR #3 Jaylen Mbakwe

RB #26 Jam Miller

The biggest news out of this report is that Tennessee will once again be without their preseason projected starters at cornerback in Rickey Gibson III and Jermod McCoy. The assumption, or at least the hope, was that both would be ready by this game since neither has played a snap all season. From the Alabama side, very few thought Derek Meadows would play after the devastating hit he took in the first half against Missouri. However, starting running back Jam Miller being listed as questionable after suffering what was thought to be a concussion is good news for the Crimson Tide.

Missouri at Auburn

Missouri

OUT

K #19 Blake Craig

QB #21 Sam Horn

QUESTIONABLE

OL #66 Logan Reichert

Auburn

OUT

WR #5 Horatio Fields

RB #21 Durell Robinson

DOUBTFUL