Georgia Tech A-back Qua Searcy out ‘for a while’
After suffering an injury in the team’s loss to Notre Dame on Saturday, Georgia Tech A-back Qua Searcy will be out for the Duke game this Saturday and likely longer.
Coach Paul Johnson said that Searcy will be out “for a while” at his Monday morning news conference. He termed it a “lower extremity” injury. While other players left Saturday’s game with injuries, including center Freddie Burden, A-back Broderick Snoddy, wide receiver Micheal Summers and defensive end Rod Rook-Chungong, Johnson was vague regarding their circumstances. On his Monday night radio show, he said that Summers will be out for the Duke game.
“The other guys, we’ll see,” he said. “We’ll release it on Thursday, but (Searcy) for sure, he’ll be out for a while.”
Burden, Snoddy and Summers were held out of practice Monday. Offensive players and coaches are available for media interviews on Monday, and requests for all three were turned down, the standard protocol for players who do not practice.
Searcy has been among the most productive A-backs thus far, although he, like others in his position group, struggled against Notre Dame. Johnson said that it’s possible first-year freshman A-back Mikell Lands-Davis, who has yet to play, could burn his redshirt with Searcy out. Lands-Davis began the preseason at B-back but moved to A-back during camp after falling to fourth in the four-man competition at B-back. Johnson also said that one of the first-year freshman wide receivers who have yet to play, Christian Philpott and Harland Howell, may also get into the game.
“He’s been with the varsity, so there’s a chance he could play this week,” Johnson said of Lands-Davis.
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Ken Sugiura is a sports columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Formerly the Georgia Tech beat reporter, Sugiura started at the AJC in 1998 and has covered a variety of beats, mostly within sports.
