{"id":246969,"date":"2025-10-23T20:57:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/246969\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T20:57:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:57:03","slug":"whit-weeks-injury-update-latest-on-lsu-lineabcker-ahead-of-texas-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/246969\/","title":{"rendered":"Whit Weeks injury update: Latest on LSU lineabcker ahead of Texas A&M"},"content":{"rendered":"

LSU<\/a> linebacker Whit Weeks<\/a> is unlikely to play on Saturday against Texas A&M<\/a>, sources tell On3. The first-team All-SEC linebacker in 2024 missed last week\u2019s game at Vanderbilt and is still non-weight-bearing on his right ankle. <\/p>\n

Weeks is fourth on the team with 10 quarterback hurries and eighth on the team with 26 tackles this season. The linebacker was listed<\/a> on Wednesday night\u2019s availability report as doubtful. Weeks is dealing with a bone bruise in his ankle. <\/p>\n

\u201c(Weeks) has been doing some additional treatments,\u201d LSU head coach Brian Kelly<\/a> said this week. \u201cHe\u2019s feeling better, but we won\u2019t know on him until later in the week.\u201d<\/p>\n

After being listed as \u201cquestionable\u201d to play a week ago, Weeks did not suit up in LSU\u2019s road loss to Vanderbilt. He had rotated more often than usual in the team\u2019s win over South Carolina<\/a> two weeks ago, which was a clear indication of Weeks battling through an injury following the team\u2019s bye week.<\/p>\n

Weeks, who has played 259 snaps in six games this season, has logged 29 total tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, a sack, and a fumble recovery as the team\u2019s top starter at linebacker.<\/p>\n

Whit Weeks saw his breakout campaign in 2024 cut short in the final game of the year when he suffered a dislocated ankle and a fractured tibia in LSU\u2019s 44-31 win over\u00a0Baylor<\/a>\u00a0in the Texas Bowl. Weeks underwent surgery for the injury. The current ankle injury is the opposite ankle that he injured a year ago.<\/p>\n

If Weeks is unable to play vs. Texas A&M this weekend, expectations are that LSU defensive coordinator Blake Baker<\/a> will start West Weeks<\/a> and Davhon Keys<\/a> at the linebacker position. The Tigers will also be without starting left tackle Tyree Adams<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Bengal Tiger\u2019s Shea Dixon contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LSU linebacker Whit Weeks is unlikely to play on Saturday against Texas A&M, sources tell On3. The first-team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[130266,399,398,396,397,99,71596],"class_list":{"0":"post-246969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-brian-kelly-79-st-johns-preparatory-school","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-whit-weeks-23-oconee-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246969","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=246969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}