Georgia Tech’s B-backs picture became less clear with an injury to early-enrollee freshman Quaide Weimerskirch that will keep him out for the remainder of spring practice and possibly into the season.
Weimerskirch suffered a lower-leg or foot injury in the team’s practice Saturday and was wearing a protective boot Monday. Following Monday’s practice, the ninth of the spring, coach Paul Johnson said that he would learn probably by the end of the week if the injury will last into the season. Johnson said that Weimerskirch suffered the injury stepping awkwardly as he pushed off the foot.
“Just a freak thing,” he said.
With the graduation of Synjyn Days, Zach Laskey and Matt Connors, Tech is without a B-back with game experience. Coaches were counting on competition between Weimerskirch and redshirt freshman C.J. Leggett to spur both players’ development going into the summer.
Johnson moved rising junior Marcus Allen, who came to Tech at B-back but has since moved to linebacker and then wide receiver, to B-back for depth purposes. Tech has two signees coming in this summer at the position, Mikell Lands-Davis and Marcus Marshall. Johnson made an oblique reference to “possibly one other guy coming” at the position, likely a transfer.
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