“We are getting different opinions, but it doesn’t look good,” Freeze said. “It is a rare injury that he could try to push through and get fixed after the season. However, there is the chance that scar tissue could form and affect him long term. We certainly think he has a career in football and we want to do everything we can to preserve that career. The final decision has not been made; we are waiting on one final opinion from one of the top doctors that deals with this injury every day, but right not it doesn’t look promising.”
In spite of Shepard’s absence, Freeze was feeling good about the Rebels’ depth at cornerback.
“Mike (Hilton) will play corner some,” Freeze said. “He has great football knowledge and can play both huskie and corner. Senquez (Golson), Derrick (Jones), Carlos (Davis) and Cliff (Coleman) will all help us at corner. We think Kendarius Webster is going to be a really good player. We hate that this happened to Tee (Shepard), but we certainly feel better about our depth than we were the last two years.”
Unfortunately, that depth took a hit last night when Davis was hurt.
Davis Tweeted that he may have torn his ACL, although that has not been confirmed by the school yet, and the Tweet was deleted.
While Davis wasn't a likely starter he had experience that would have been utilized. His injury puts more pressure on Derrick Jones and Kendarius Webster to be ready to go behind Senquez Golson and Mike Hilton.