Kentucky confirmed Friday evening that redshirt sophomore running back Josh Clemons had sustained an Achilles tendon injury, though the exact severity of the injury wasn’t known.
In addition to the Butkus Award watch list (which you can view HERE), the Rotary Lombardi Award preseason watch list was released today as the college football season inches ever closer.
The NCAA made it known it was serious about reducing -- or, attempting to reduce -- head injuries when the Playing Rules Oversight Panel ruled in March that any player flagged for targeting a defenseless player would be automatically ejected from the game.
Penn State may or may not be planning on meeting with the NCAA in an attempt to reduce the sanctions levied against the program, but the university is definitely moving forward with another, and far more important, aspect of the Jerry Sandusky fallout.
Penn State coach Bill O’Brien has tried coming up with imaginative ways in the past to give his team an extra game/event while the program serves its NCAA-mandated postseason ban.
