{"id":9458,"date":"2025-10-18T03:42:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T03:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/9458\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T03:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T03:42:26","slug":"sources-texas-techs-skyler-gill-howard-out-rest-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/9458\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Texas Tech’s Skyler Gill-Howard out rest of season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Max OlsonOct 18, 2025, 02:24 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Covers the Big 12Joined ESPN in 2012Graduate of the University of Nebraska<\/p>\n

Texas Tech<\/a> defensive tackle Skyler Gill-Howard<\/a> underwent ankle surgery Thursday in Dallas and is expected to miss the rest of the season, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n

Gill-Howard, a Northern Illinois<\/a> transfer who has been a standout for the No. 7 Red Raiders and one of the top defenses in college football, suffered the injury during their win over Kansas<\/a> last Saturday. The injury has not been determined to be a season-ending one at this time, sources told ESPN, and there’s hope Gill-Howard could return for the postseason.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-1, 290-pound senior has played in six games and has recorded 13 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss and an interception that he returned 55 yards for a touchdown against Kent State<\/a>. Texas Tech has the No. 1 run defense in FBS at 62.5 rushing yards per game and the No. 6 scoring defense, allowing 12.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Houston<\/a> transfer A.J. Holmes Jr.<\/a> is expected to replace Gill-Howard in the starting lineup, sources told ESPN, and Texas Tech coaches are expecting senior backup E’Maurion Banks<\/a> to play a more significant role going forward.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Will Hammond<\/a> is expected to start at quarterback at Arizona State<\/a> on Saturday, a source told ESPN’s Pete Thamel. Starter Behren Morton<\/a> will be available after battling a leg injury and being limited in practice this week, a source told Thamel.<\/p>\n

The Red Raiders are 6-0 for the first time since 2013.<\/p>\n

CBS Sports first reported that Gill-Howard is expected to miss significant time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max OlsonOct 18, 2025, 02:24 AM CloseCovers the Big 12Joined ESPN in 2012Graduate of the University of Nebraska…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-9458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9458","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=9458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}