{"id":474016,"date":"2026-10-23T01:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T01:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/474016\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T01:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T01:34:11","slug":"texas-edge-colin-simmons-ruled-out-in-thursday-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/474016\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas EDGE Colin Simmons ruled out in Thursday injury report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The No. 19 Texas Longhorns will officially be without star junior edge Colin Simmons for Saturday\u2019s matchup against the No. 9 Ole Miss Rebels, the team revealed in Thursday\u2019s SEC-mandated player availability report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Simmons, who leads the country in sacks and tackles for loss, was downgraded from questionable to out after sustaining a high ankle sprain in the fourth quarter of Saturday\u2019s loss to Florida, confirming reporting from earlier in the week that the 6\u20193, 246-pounder was expected to miss the game against Ole Miss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Texas is thin at the edge position after freshman Richard Wesley suffered his own high ankle sprain during practice this week \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burntorangenation.com\/texas-longhorns-football\/106184\/texas-longhorns-pass-rush-injuries-colin-simmons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to a Thursday report from Orangebloods<\/a>, the former consensus five-star prospect could miss the remainder of the regular season with the injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Like Simmons, senior running back Hollywood Smothers was also downgraded on Thursday, from probable to questionable, following a shoulder injury that caused him to miss practice earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Sophomore wide receiver Kaliq Lockett and sophomore offensive lineman Jordan Coleman remain questionable, while freshman running back Derrek Cooper was added to the injury report as probable after sitting out against the Gators due to an undisclosed injury that head coach Steve Sarkisian said left him less than 100 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Seven Ole Miss players were upgraded from probable to available, including star running back Kewan Lacey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 19 Texas Longhorns will officially be without star junior edge Colin Simmons for Saturday\u2019s matchup against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,536,6467,28],"class_list":["post-474016","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\/474016","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=474016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}