{"id":208039,"date":"2025-10-08T02:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/208039\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T02:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:47:07","slug":"lincoln-riley-gives-key-injury-updates-before-michigan-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/208039\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Riley Gives Key Injury Updates Before Michigan Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

The USC Trojans<\/a> are just days away from taking on the Michigan Wolverines at the Los Angeles\u00a0 Memorial Coliseum on Saturday, Oct. 11. USC coach Lincoln Riley<\/a> spoke to reporters after practice on Tuesday, revealing some key injury updates<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Sep 27, 2025; Champaign, Illinois, USA; Southern California Trojans head coach Lincoln Riley before an NCAA football game with the Illinois Fighting Illini at Memorial Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Ron Johnson-Imagn Images \/ Ron Johnson-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

How Has Alex Graham Progressed?<\/p>\n

\u201cGood. Had a good bye week. That kind of worked out perfectly for him. Able to get a lot of reps. We\u2019ll keep repping him. Hope to get him ready to help us here in the near future. I don\u2019t know if it will be this week, but it\u2019s actually been a little faster than expected given the nature of the injury. Healing has gone well. We\u2019re going to get him ready as fast as we can.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

Elijah Paige Update<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s got a chance. It\u2019s not a shoe in, it\u2019s just kind off been a nagging injury that he\u2019s dealt with. One of those things you just try to manage as best you can. The bye week was defiantly helpful\u2026Just got to see how the rest of the week plays out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michigan Defensive Line vs. USC Offensive Line\"USC<\/p>\n

Sep 6, 2025; Norman, Oklahoma, USA; Michigan Wolverines head coach Sherrone Moore on the sidelines during the second half of a game against the Oklahoma Sooners at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images \/ Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re good. They\u2019re different. They had just the two dominant inside players last year and they got good inside players this year too. But those guys were obviously exceptional players. They\u2019re experienced at the edges. Got guys that have played a while for them, made a lot of plays. Then you just see their depth. They have a lot of really good depth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are able to rotate guys, able to play multiple guys is somebody is out\u2026I think we\u2019re in a much different place on the o-line then we were at this time last year with some of our depth and I think some of the improvements we\u2019ve made. We\u2019ve got a really good group, they got a really good group, it should be a fun battle.\u201d<\/p>\n

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MORE: USC Coach Lincoln Riley Addresses Big Ten Officiating, Missed Penalty<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Work Put In By Secondary During Bye Week\"USC<\/p>\n

Sep 27, 2025; Champaign, Illinois, USA; Illinois Fighting Illini running back Kaden Feagin (3) runs for a touchdown as Southern California Trojans linebacker Anthony Beavers Jr. (15) pursues during the second half at Memorial Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Ron Johnson-Imagn Images \/ Ron Johnson-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they\u2019ve worked hard. We\u2019ve gotten some people back, healthier, more reps. It\u2019s been good to have a few more bodies out there throughout the week and we attacked everything her don. Things that we had to improve at; leveraging the ball on the perimeter, being aggressive in coverage.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The USC Trojans are just days away from taking on the Michigan Wolverines at the Los Angeles\u00a0 Memorial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-208039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}