USC interim coach Donte Williams doesn't expect tight end Michael Trigg to return right away from a lower-leg injury he sustained against Utah on Saturday.
USC swimming and diving coach Jeremy Kipp has been put on administrative leave amid concerns about abusive treatment of athletes within the program.Trigg was just beginning to find his stride in recent weeks, catching three passes against Oregon State and then making an acrobatic, jump-ball touchdown grab against Colorado. But a helmet directly to the knee against Utah will delay any further progress.
“It was a bang-bang play,” Williams said. “Kedon [Slovis] threw the pass, he caught the pass, and the guy came in pretty low on him. His foot was already in the ground, and he came kind of low, and I mean, it looked bad from my vantage point. You hope for the best, but you always have to expect the worst. Fortunately for us, it wasn’t an ACL or nothing like that. I mean, that’s a kid that’s put so much into the particular game that at that moment in time, it was a shock to his system.
USC could use a shock to its own system over the next week as it enters the bye 3-3, with its prospects of competing in the Pac-12 looking bleak. Williams said he expects to give more young players opportunities, starting with a scrimmage of all young players Thursday. “They were thrown into the fire in fall camp,” Williams said of the Trojans’ young players. “You ask freshmen to play, but at the same time, how many of these freshmen started on their ninth grade high school team on varsity? That’s pretty much what it is.”
Trigg was talented enough to emerge despite those limitations. But without him, USC finds itself short on impact freshmen moving forward.
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