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Foot injury shelves Sooners' Granger
Defensive tackle could miss the rest of the season.

OU defensive tackle DeMarcus Granger, shown after being injured in the first half against Washington on Saturday, will be out at least four weeks. TOM GILBERT/Tulsa World

 
By GUERIN EMIG World Sports Writer
Published: 9/18/2008  2:13 AM
Last Modified: 9/18/2008  2:46 AM

Defensive tackle could miss the rest of the season.



NORMAN — The Oklahoma Sooners better get used to playing without DeMarcus Granger.

The defensive tackle is out a minimum of four weeks and possibly the entire season with something worse than a sprained left foot, the original diagnosis coming out of OU's victory over Washington last Saturday.

"It's something in the tendon and with the bone," coach Bob Stoops announced after practice Wednesday.

Stoops said doctors are considering two options with Granger's foot. They could wait four weeks to see if it heals, which would allow the lineman to play again this season. The other option would be to do surgery and insert a pin in the foot, which would end Granger's season.

Either way, the Sooners will miss an All-Big 12 Conference player from a year ago who was just rounding back into form after a sluggish preseason camp.

"His last game, it was like, 'There he is,' " OU defensive coordinator Brent Venables said. "That first half, that's the guy you knew."

Granger recovered a fumble and was a consistent presence in Washington's backfield before being roughed up by three Husky linemen on a play late in the second quarter.

"That's been going on for years in football," defensive tackles coach Jackie Shipp said. "It goes on at every level, high school, pro, college. Those things happen."

Shipp's concerns have more to do with the future. He will continue to start Gerald McCoy and
Adrian Taylor at tackle, with fourth-year junior Cordero Moore taking Granger's place alongside Cory Bennett off the bench, at least initially.

"If something changes, we'll have to go with three," Shipp said.

Should that happen, the Sooners sound confident they will hold up.

"I think we'll be all right," McCoy said.

"Cordero's going to come in and play good for us. I don't doubt that at all. I'm not worried."



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By GUERIN EMIG World Sports Writer

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OKLA, (9/18/2008 8:27:05 AM)
Mugging is not playing football. It is criminal and no matter how long "it has been going on" it needs to stop with the three perpetrators on the Washington team being permanently expelled from the team for unsportsmanlike conduct. The refs ought to suffer some sort of fine for ignoring it when the whole country witnessed it on television.
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sooner8980, Tulsa (9/18/2008 8:44:58 AM)
The Pac-10 has always had bad officiating, don't expect it to change anytime soon. Nothing was going to stop the Sooners in Seattle last Saturday. OU will definitely miss Granger, at least OU has some depth at that spot. Right now OU needs to rest this week and focus on TCU. Remember 2005?
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my2cents, (9/18/2008 11:13:35 AM)
It's harder to steal coats in the desert when you're on crutches.
 

 
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