{"id":8790,"date":"2025-10-17T18:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/8790\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:42:07","slug":"texas-tech-dt-skylar-gill-howard-reportedly-has-surgery-return-timeline-unclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/8790\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech DT Skylar Gill-Howard reportedly has surgery, return timeline unclear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/\">Texas Tech<\/a> defensive tackle Skylar Gill-Howard underwent surgery on Thursday for the lower-leg injury he suffered last week against Kansas, according to multiple reports. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Gill-Howard was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/2025\/10\/11\/texas-tech-defensive-lineman-skylar-gill-howard-carted-off-against-kansas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/2025\/10\/11\/texas-tech-defensive-lineman-skylar-gill-howard-carted-off-against-kansas\/\">carted off four minutes into the 42-17 win<\/a>. The NIU transfer went down on the Jayhawks\u2019 opening drive and motioned to his lower body when speaking with medical personnel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The plan, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BruceFeldmanCFB\/status\/1979237601853964751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BruceFeldmanCFB\/status\/1979237601853964751\">The Athletic\u2019s Bruce Feldman<\/a>, is for Gill-Howard to potentially be back in time for the College Football Playoffs, should the Red Raiders keep up their winning ways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Texas Tech was ranked No. 7 in the last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/college-sports\/2025\/10\/12\/college-football-poll-ap-top-25-texas-longhorns-oklahoma-sooners-texas-am-aggies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/college-sports\/2025\/10\/12\/college-football-poll-ap-top-25-texas-longhorns-oklahoma-sooners-texas-am-aggies\/\">AP Top 25 poll<\/a>, and has an undefeated 6-0 record as the Red Raiders embark on the back half of the season. Texas Tech faces Arizona State on Saturday.<\/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\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/\" target=\"_blank\">Find more Texas Tech coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech defensive tackle Skylar Gill-Howard underwent surgery on Thursday for the lower-leg injury he suffered last week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1638,3688,27,29,28,415],"class_list":["post-8790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-brief","tag-colleges","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790","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=8790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}