{"id":469123,"date":"2026-10-17T21:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T21:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/469123\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T21:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T21:26:13","slug":"texas-edge-colin-simmons-suffered-lower-leg-injury-vs-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/469123\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas EDGE Colin Simmons suffered lower-leg injury vs. Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">AUSTIN \u2014 Texas Longhorns junior edge Colin Simmons suffered a lower-leg injury early in the fourth quarter of Saturday\u2019s 27-24 loss to the Florida Gators on Saturday in Austin, head coach Steve Sarkisian said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Simmons was helped off the field before heading into the locker room on a cart. He did not return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI don\u2019t know the extent of it all,\u201d Sarkisian said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The injury ended a superlative performance for the 6\u20193, 246-pounder, who recorded a sack to extend his national lead and finished with eight tackles (five solo), four tackles for loss, and two quarterback hurries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Sarkisian also said that freshman running back Derrek Cooper did not receive a carry against the Gators because he wasn\u2019t 100 percent. Cooper was not listed on any of the conference-mandated injury reports this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN \u2014 Texas Longhorns junior edge Colin Simmons suffered a lower-leg injury early in the fourth quarter of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,536,6467,28],"class_list":["post-469123","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\/469123","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=469123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}