San Diego State listed nearly three dozen players on its initial Pac-12 Availability Report released Wednesday night. It included 15 players listed on SDSU\u2019s two-deep as either \u201cdoubtful\u201d or \u201cout\u201d for this weekend\u2019s game against Texas State.<\/p>\n
Among those listed out for the Aztecs are starting running back Lucky Sutton and right guard Michael Leville Watkins.<\/p>\n
Among those listed as doubtful are running back Javion Kinnard, who started in place of Sutton against James Madison and was injured last week against Toledo. Starting wide receiver Bert Emanuel Jr. and tight ends Jackson Ford and Ryan Wolfer are listed as questionable.<\/p>\n
Conference schools list players in four categories: probable, questionable, doubtful and out. The injury report is updated each of the three days leading up to game day and then within two hours of kickoff on game day. SDSU (1-3) opens Pac-12 play against the Bobcats (2-2) on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Snapdragon Stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe football gods have not really favored us with the injury luck,\u201d SDSU coach Sean Lewis said after Wednesday morning\u2019s practice. \u201cGuys have got to be ready to step into the light when the time comes. \u2026 We\u2019ve been given a nice storm here. But this too shall pass, and we\u2019ve got to be able to see our way through it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Texas State\u2019s Availability Report included 14 players. Four backups are listed as out. The others are listed as questionable.<\/p>\n
SDSU had its share of injuries during the season\u2019s four nonconference games, but complicating matters for the team is a mumps outbreak that has affected more than a dozen players on the team.<\/p>\n
The university sent a health alert on Wednesday, noting that a mumps outbreak first acknowledged on Sept. 18 now includes 14 confirmed cases and one probable case. That\u2019s up from an initial three confirmed and two probable cases. The statement said that all the cases remain isolated to a single athletics team that it did not identify. That team is football, according to sources.<\/p>\n
As far as the Availability Report, Lewis said he likes the transparency.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s good,\u201d he said. \u201cIt sure saves a lot of time from scouring the internet, press conferences and the local reporters about what\u2019s being said and who\u2019s out and who\u2019s available. This is what it is, and we\u2019re going to do it the next four days as we get into conference play. Transparency\u2019s good. There\u2019s nothing wrong with that. As we continue to move through it, as we\u2019re a month into it, you turn on the tape and you know who\u2019s hobbled, who\u2019s dressed or not. A majority of it is there. As a lot of things have changed, (coaches) have become much more open about.<\/p>\n
\u201cAgain, the coverage of each team has gotten so good, between local reporters and message boards, it\u2019s out there, anyway. We share the information pretty forthright(ly). The men and the coaches that are in the Pac-12 Conference are forthright with the information. There\u2019s not a whole lot of gamesmanship anymore the way there was back in the day when there weren\u2019t quite as many eyeballs day in and day out on the programs.\u201d<\/p>\n
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SDSU\u2019s Pac-12 Availability Report<\/p>\n
Probable: WR Carson Diehl, *OL Dennis Jones, *WR Donovan Brown, *C Isaac Lucas, WR Jacob Bostick, *DB Jalen Thomeson, *OLB Kai Wallin, DB Kaimana Tufaga, *LG Kalan Ellis, DL Krisha Clay, WR Parker Threatt.<\/p>\n
Questionable: *WR Bert Emanuel Jr., *TE Jackson Ford, TE Kime Fangupo, TE Ryan Wolfer.<\/p>\n
Doubtful: ILB Dean Harrington, TE Elijah Muliufi, OL Harlem Nellum, TE Jack Lua, RB Javion Kinnard, ILB Jeramiah Lewis, WR Justius Lowe, DL Tuaoa Tau\u2019ili\u2019ili.<\/p>\n
Out: DB Braylon Cardwell, DB Dalesean Staley, TE Jack Ellis, *RB Lucky Sutton, LS Luke Williams, *OL Michael Leville Watkins, TE Parker Guiltinan, DL Roman Paseka, QB Stone Saunders.<\/p>\n
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