Texas Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian was optimistic this week when requested concerning the harm standing of LT Kelvin Banks Jr. and WR Isaiah Bond for Saturday’s first-round Faculty Soccer Playoff contest towards Clemson.
Sark was guarded as traditional about participant standing, not wanting to offer out any extra data than he deemed crucial. “They’re each enhancing, which is nice for us,” Sark mentioned in his Thursday Zoom press convention. “They’re each exhibiting nice progress.”
A newly topped Outland and Lombardi Trophy winner, Banks appears the extra doubtless of the pair to play Saturday, in line with the Austin American-Statesman. The junior did reportedly observe this week.
Banks was seen strolling this week with out a brace or a noticeable limp. “The ankle is feeling an entire lot higher,” Banks instructed reporters Monday. “I have been attacking the rehab course of, so I am feeling assured in my ankle and the place I am at in my course of. I really feel assured I will have the ability to play Saturday.”
Bond is affected by an ankle harm he acquired within the SEC title sport Georgia in Atlanta. Sark says he did not observe this week however, “I’m optimistic that that he’ll have the ability to go Saturday, however once more, time all the time tells, particularly with the harm he is acquired.”
Bond has been an enormous a part of Sark’s assault this season. “He is a man that may catch a bubble display and take it the space, and it’s a must to account for that,” Sarkisian mentioned. “He is a man that may catch a crossing route and create an explosive or get a reverse and create an explosive, to not point out all of the deep photographs down the sector.”
This text initially appeared on Longhorns Wire: Harm Replace: Will Texas stars Kelvin Banks, Isaiah Bond play vs. Clemson?
