{"id":427587,"date":"2026-09-06T00:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T00:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427587\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T00:36:08","slug":"steve-sarkisian-provides-injury-update-on-texas-rb-derrek-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427587\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Sarkisian provides injury update on Texas RB Derrek Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 On a one-yard gain early in the second quarter of the 59-7 win by the No. 5 Texas Longhorns over the Texas State Bobcats, freshman running back Derrek Cooper suffered an ankle injury that caused him to miss the remainder of the game, according to head coach Steve Sarkisian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Cooper headed into the locker room after the injury and was spotted on the sideline wearing a boot in the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">As Texas prepares to host No. 1 Ohio State next weekend in Austin, the medical staff will monitor Cooper and his improvement to determine a timetable for his return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 6\u20191, 212-pounder finished with two carries for six yards as the third-team running back \u2014 Cooper beat out three older players to earn that spot on the depth chart and is expected to play a significant role special teams and offense backing up senior Hollywood Smothers and fifth-year Raleek Brown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Cooper signed with Texas out of Hollywood (Fla.) Chaminade-Madonna as a consensus four-star prospect ranked as the No. 109 player nationally and the No. 7 running back in the 247Sports Composite rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cHis spirit\u2019s high because he knows he\u2019s still got us,\u201d Brown said after the game. \u201cHe looks up to us and we just lean in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 On a one-yard gain early in the second quarter of the 59-7 win by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,536,6467,28],"class_list":["post-427587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns-football","tag-texas-longhorns-football-injuries","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427587","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=427587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}