Report: Oklahoma LB Shane Whitter to Miss Rest of Season With Shoulder Injury

One other harm blow to Oklahoma.

The Sooners, who’ve had some tough luck lately on the harm entrance, have misplaced one other scholarship participant transferring ahead as junior linebacker Shane Whitter will miss the rest of the 2022 season with a shoulder harm, per a report from 247Sports’ Parker Thune.

Whitter has appeared in 4 video games this season selecting up eight whole tackles after taking part in in all 13 video games a yr in the past amassing 27 whole tackles.

Whereas he hadn’t but performed a very massive position on Brent Venables’ protection, he was one other stable veteran possibility for a linebacking unit that’s comparatively skinny.

Venables had beforehand said that freshmen Kobie McKinzie and Kip Lewis would probably be redshirting the season, which leaves simply 4 scholarship linebackers accessible in Danny Stutsman, DaShaun White, David Ugwoegbu and Jaren Kanak.

Ought to the Sooners undergo any extra accidents to their linebacker room, Venables and firm would have some choices to make in the way to handle the place.

For now, Oklahoma will greater than probably proceed ahead with the already-heavy workload heaped upon Stutsman, White and Ugwoegbu with Kanak showing sporadically.

The Sooners return to motion on Saturday towards Texas on the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.