Oct 13, 2025, 03:11 PM ET<\/p>\n
LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech<\/a> quarterback Behren Morton<\/a> is considered day-to-day for the seventh-ranked Red Raiders after coming out of a game for the third time this season, the second because of hurting his right leg while getting sacked.<\/p>\n “That dude’s the toughest kid I’ve ever coached. His pain tolerance and just toughness and care factor is really high,” Tech coach Joey McGuire said Monday. “So he’s day-to-day. We’ll see how he feels.”<\/p>\n The Red Raiders (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) have their highest AP Top 25 ranking since 2008 as they get ready to play Saturday at defending Big 12 champion Arizona State<\/a> (4-2, 2-1), a team they beat last season.<\/p>\n Morton was injured Saturday night on a sack in the second quarter of a 42-17 victory over Kansas. McGuire said then the injury was similar to one the coach called a hyperextended right knee sustained in the opener against Arkansas-Pine Bluff. The injury in that 67-7 victory also came before halftime.<\/p>\n “He feels a lot better than what he did after the Arkansas-Pine Bluff game,” McGuire said.<\/p>\n In another game Sept. 20, Texas Tech led by just a touchdown when Morton exited a 34-10 victory at then-No. 16 Utah early in the second half after taking a hard hit to the helmet on a scramble.<\/p>\n Morton has completed 104 of 152 passes (68.4%) for 1,501 yards with 13 touchdowns and three interceptions. Two of those picks came against the Utes before he was hurt.<\/p>\n Backup Will Hammond<\/a> has come off the bench each time for Morton to help Tech remain undefeated. The Red Raiders also have Mitch Griffis<\/a>, a Wake Forest transfer who decided to play again after sitting out last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 13, 2025, 03:11 PM ET LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech quarterback Behren Morton is considered day-to-day for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","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=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}