Alabama football’s Kobe Prentice will miss South Carolina game with injury

Alabama football will be without at least one wide receiver for Saturday’s matchup with South Carolina. Kobe Prentice was designated as out according to the SEC’s final availability report, after being listed as questionable throughout the week.

Prentice took a blow to the head during last week’s loss to Vanderbilt, and left the game. The play was initially called targeting, but the penalty was reversed after replay review.

The availability report also listed Prentice’s fellow wide receiver, Kendrick Law. Law was listed as a game time decision, after suffering what head coach Kalen DeBoer called a “lower-leg injury” against Georgia, and missing the Vanderbilt game.

“Both of them out here going through workouts,” DeBoer said of Prentice and Law on Wednesday. “On track like we thought they should be, making progress toward the weekend. Wouldn’t say that they’re full-go yet, but they’re on pace, we had hoped. So getting some work in, some individual and some team work there too, so it’s progressing along and they’re doing a good job.”

Linebacker Yhonzae Pierre will also miss the game. He was listed as out on Wednesday, after posting a picture of himself in what appeared to be a hospital bed on Tuesday.

The SEC mandated teams begin releasing game-week availability reports for the 2024 season. The reports are released beginning Wednesday of conference game week, with the final one coming 90 minutes before scheduled kickoff.

Alabama and South Carolina are set to kick off at 11 a.m. CT at Bryant-Denny Stadium. The game will be aired on ABC.