As injuries begin to mount for the No. 1 Texas Longhorns after two games, head coach Steve Sarkisian provided several updates on Thursday ahead of the matchup against the UTSA Roadrunners at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ll get Derrek Cooper back this week, which would be great for us,\u201d Sarkisian said. \u201cHe was a guy who we had really high expectations for to start the year, and got hurt early in the Texas State game, wasn\u2019t able to play last week, so we\u2019ll get him back this week.\u201d<\/p>\n
A consensus four-star prospect ranked as the No. 7 running back in the 2026 recruiting class, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings, Cooper had two carries for six yards prior to his injury against the Bobcats and is listed as the third-string running back on the team\u2019s depth chart.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ll be able to go Saturday,\u201d Sarkisian said.<\/p>\n
Before leaving the eventual win over the Buckeyes, Townsend played 22 snaps on offense and three snaps on special teams. He did not receive a target in the passing game, but fellow sophomore tight end Emaree Winston had a significant impact in the second half, recording three receptions for 38 yards, including a big conversion on a 4th and 9 late in the third quarter, but also dropped two passes.<\/p>\n
The Longhorns head coach did not provide an update on sophomore defensive lineman Justus Terry, who missed Saturday\u2019s comeback win after sustaining a toe injury during pregame warmups, nor other players who were non-participants against the Buckeyes like sophomore safety Jonah Williams and junior nickel back Xavier Filsaime, who did not dress for the first two games.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got other guys with some bumps and bruises, and that\u2019s where the depth needs to start to step up, so we can rotate some guys,\u2019 Sarkisian said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As injuries begin to mount for the No. 1 Texas Longhorns after two games, head coach Steve Sarkisian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1003794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48,1079,37128],"class_list":["post-1003793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-texas-longhorns-football","tag-texas-longhorns-football-injuries"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117289896056178988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1003794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}