Jerry Kill took note of the defensive line injuries Wisconsin suffered in Saturday's loss to LSU and could feel the Badgers pain.
Wisconsin lost Konrad Zagzebski and Warren Herring. The Badgers needed to replace their front seven from last year's team, and once those starters went down, LSU steamrolled them.
Meanwhile, the Gophers are dealing with leg injuries to defensive linemen Scott Ekpe, Alex Keith and Yoshoub Timms from Thursday's win over Eastern Illinois.
"It doesn't look real good for at least one of them," Kill said Sunday on his weekly appearance with Sid Hartman and Dave Mona on 830-AM. "That's definitely a concern we're addressing as we speak."
Kill didn't give specifics, but there were indications Friday that Ekpe could have suffered a season-ending knee injury. Kill's next scheduled media appearance is Tuesday at his weekly press conference. Here's my story looking at how those injuries could impact the Gophers moving forward.
Randy Johnson has been covering college football in one form or another since the early 1990s. He was the Star Tribune’s main college football editor on the copy desk for nearly two decades before returning to reporting in August 2017 as the beat writer for Gophers football. Randy has covered a Rose Bowl (Joe Paterno’s 1994 Penn State team), and he covered a John Gutekunst-coached Gophers team that missed out on the 1990 Weed-Eater Bowl. Email Randy to talk about the Gophers.
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