{"id":69903,"date":"2025-11-29T20:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/69903\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T20:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:13:08","slug":"baylor-rb-caden-knighten-carted-off-field-after-sustaining-injury-vs-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/69903\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor RB Caden Knighten carted off field after sustaining injury vs. Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/baylor-bears\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/baylor-bears\/\">Baylor<\/a> football took some hits at the running back position during Saturday\u2019s matchup with Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Late in the third quarter, freshman running back Caden Knighten was carted off the field after sustaining what appeared to be a lower back injury. Knighten went down after taking a hard hit from a Houston defender as he tried to push forward for extra yardage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Knighten was evaluated on the field by trainers before he was placed on a stretcher. The running back was then carted off the field. He raised a thumbs-up and was seen speaking to medical staff as he was carted off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Knighten had an expanded role in Baylor\u2019s meeting with Houston after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/baylor-bears\/2025\/11\/29\/baylor-bears-bryson-washington-injury-houston-cougars\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/baylor-bears\/2025\/11\/29\/baylor-bears-bryson-washington-injury-houston-cougars\/\">Bryson Washington went down with a leg injury early.<\/a> Knighten ran for 22 yards on eight carries before he left the game.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Baylor entered the game at 5-6 and was looking to secure bowl eligibility with a win over Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">This post will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/baylor-bears\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more Baylor coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baylor football took some hits at the running back position during Saturday\u2019s matchup with Houston. Late in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3689,3688,56,58,57,4680,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-69903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-baylor-bears","9":"tag-colleges","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-injury-update","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69903","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=69903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}