{"id":861655,"date":"2026-09-26T19:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T19:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/861655\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T19:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T19:08:12","slug":"injury-status-of-texas-rb-hollywood-smothers-upgraded-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/861655\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury status of Texas RB Hollywood Smothers upgraded on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The status of senior running back Hollywood Smothers was unclear for Saturday\u2019s matchup between the No. 1 Texas Longhorns and the No. 14 Tennessee Volunteers at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville with On3 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeteNakos\/status\/2103534775202165138\" rel=\"nofollow\">reporting<\/a> early on Friday that Smothers was expected to be a game-time decision with a lower-leg injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 5\u201911, 196-pounder was officially listed as questionable on the SEC-mandated injury reports released on Wednesday and Thursday before being upgraded to probable on Friday evening\u2019s report, an important development for the Longhorns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On the final injury report released 90 minutes before kickoff, Smothers was no longer listed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">A Charlotte product who started his career at Oklahoma before transferring to NC State, Smothers won the starting role in preseason camp and quickly emerged as the team\u2019s lead back over fifth-year Raleek Brown and freshman Derek Cooper. Through three games, Smothers leads the Horns with 198 rushing yards and two touchdowns on 41 carries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The potential that Smothers isn\u2019t able to play or is limited against Tennessee comes as Texas is still trying to find its explosiveness in the running game and offense overall \u2014 since Smothers ripped off a 45-yard run on the team\u2019s first play from scrimmage this season, the Longhorns have not produced a run longer than 21 yards. In the last two games, the longest run by Texas was a 20-yard scramble by quarterback Arch Manning against UTSA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Across the country, 74 teams have more one run of 30-plus yards and 65 teams have at least one run of 50-plus yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The status of senior running back Hollywood Smothers was unclear for Saturday\u2019s matchup between the No. 1 Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99,41661,85233],"class_list":["post-861655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-texas-longhorns-football","tag-texas-longhorns-football-injuries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861655","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=861655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}