{"id":16658,"date":"2025-10-23T01:13:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/16658\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T01:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:13:29","slug":"cj-baxter-injury-update-texas-rbs-status-revealed-vs-mississippi-state-on-wednesday-availability-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/16658\/","title":{"rendered":"CJ Baxter injury update: Texas RB’s status revealed vs. Mississippi State on Wednesday availability report"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the fourth time in as many weeks, the Texas Longhorns<\/a> play a game away from Austin. Steve Sarkisian<\/a> guides his team into one of the more unique atmospheres the all of college football, let alone the SEC, Starkville. Jeff Lebby<\/a>\u2018s Mississippi State Bulldogs<\/a> are set to host and hoping to pull off an upset.<\/p>\n

This will be just the second-ever time Texas has faced Mississippi State on the road. To find the first, we must rewind to 1991 for the front-end of a home-and-home series. At the time, the Longhorns were a part of the Southwest Conference, five years before joining the Big 12.<\/p>\n

Back to the present, there are some injuries both teams are dealing with. Wednesday brought the initial SEC injury report, giving us a first look at who might not be available on Saturday. At least two more are expected to be released by the 3:15 p.m. CT kickoff.<\/p>\n

Texas Longhorns<\/p>\n

Mississippi State Bulldogs<\/p>\n

Texas to be without safety Michael Taaffe due to thumb surgery<\/p>\n

One name that did not surprise on the injury report is Taaffe. On3\u2019s Pete Nakos<\/a> broke the news of the Texas safety getting surgery on his thumb<\/a> after the Kentucky<\/a> win. An exact timeline on his return is not quite yet known, even being admitted as such by Sarkisian during the SEC Coaches Teleconference. Either way, a massive loss for the Longhorns.<\/p>\n

Taaffe has played in all seven games this season for Texas, recording 51 tackles and one tackle for a loss. His lone interception of the year came when the Longhorns traveled down to Gainesville, a game they eventually lost to\u00a0Florida<\/a>. His play shows up in many ways we cannot see on the stat sheet, though.<\/p>\n

Exactly when the injury took place is unclear. Texas just went through a roller coaster the past two weeks despite two wins. Beating\u00a0Oklahoma<\/a>\u00a0in Dallas during the Red River Shootout (a place where thumb injuries were a big talking point due to\u00a0John Mateer<\/a>) brought the high point of the season thus far, before crashing back down to reality at Kroger Field against\u00a0Kentucky. Overtime was needed to beat the Wildcats, including a goal line stand from Taaffe\u2019s unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the fourth time in as many weeks, the Texas Longhorns play a game away from Austin. Steve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13203,13204,13205,13206,13207,13208,13209,9514,27,29,28,13210,13211,13212],"class_list":["post-16658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-aaron-butler-24-calabasas","tag-blake-steen-22-st-thomas-aquinas","tag-brennan-smith-21-escambia","tag-cj-baxter-jr-23-edgewater","tag-cole-hutson-22-frisco","tag-fluff-bothwell-24-oneonta","tag-jonathan-cunningham-25-north-crowley","tag-michael-taaffe-21-westlake","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-will-whitson-20-winton-woods","tag-xavier-filsaime-24-mckinney","tag-zakari-tillman-23-florence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}