Clay Helton's Sunday media call is ongoing ...
The first bit of news is that running back Vavae Malepeai will have knee surgery on Tuesday. He's been dealing with the knee pain for several weeks.
"Vavae's knee has finally gotten to a point with the swelling that medically they're going to go ahead and clean it out. He'll have surgery on Tuesday on the knee and I don't have a timetable for when he'll be back with that," Helton said.
Helton indicated that freshman Kenan Christon, who dressed and traveled to Notre Dame but has not yet played on offense, could get some work.
As for the other injuries, Helton didn't have any updates as to status for this week:
-Palaie Gaoteote has an ankle sprain, but he finished the game.
-Greg Johnson has a shoulder injury, no intel on his status
-Olaijah Griffin's "back acted up"
-Isaac Taylor-Stuart had an ankle sprain but returned to the game
The first bit of news is that running back Vavae Malepeai will have knee surgery on Tuesday. He's been dealing with the knee pain for several weeks.
"Vavae's knee has finally gotten to a point with the swelling that medically they're going to go ahead and clean it out. He'll have surgery on Tuesday on the knee and I don't have a timetable for when he'll be back with that," Helton said.
Helton indicated that freshman Kenan Christon, who dressed and traveled to Notre Dame but has not yet played on offense, could get some work.
"We've been very fortunate here to garner a lot of talented backs, Vavae being one of them. Stephen Carr, Markese [Stepp] and we have Quincy Jountti as well as Kenan Christon," Helton said. "So the beautiful thing about the new rule is with four games and still being able to redshirt is it allows you to play some freshmen and still have the decision whether you redshirt them or not and Kenan's in that position. So we still have a bunch of talented backs. Vavae's a warrior and has been dealing with a sore knee and really fighting through it for his team and it's just gotten to the point where it's gotten too sore so we're going to go ahead and take care of it now. The good fortune is we've still got a lot of talented backs on this team."
As for the other injuries, Helton didn't have any updates as to status for this week:
-Palaie Gaoteote has an ankle sprain, but he finished the game.
-Greg Johnson has a shoulder injury, no intel on his status
-Olaijah Griffin's "back acted up"
-Isaac Taylor-Stuart had an ankle sprain but returned to the game
