{"id":307692,"date":"2025-10-16T09:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/307692\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:24:13","slug":"texas-tech-qb-behren-morton-injury-update-ahead-of-arizona-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/307692\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech QB Behren Morton injury update ahead of Arizona State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/sites\/red-raider-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Tech<\/a><\/strong> quarterback <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/behren-morton-9563\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Behren Morton<\/a><\/strong> is expected to be listed as questionable on the Wednesday night Big 12 availability report ahead of Saturday at Arizona State, sources tell on3. Morton has been day-to-day since exiting last weekend\u2019s win against Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>X-rays on his right ankle came back negative on Sunday. Morton suffered the injury late in the second quarter after a Jayhawks lineman landed on his right ankle. The quarterback was in clear pain as he limped to the sidelines and attempted to jog it off. <\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time that Behren Morton has gone down with an injury this season. He also left the Week 4 game against\u00a0Utah\u00a0due to a neck injury. Texas Tech had a bye the following week, and Morton made his return from that injury in Week 6 against\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/houston-cougars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Morton also suffered a leg injury in the season opener against\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/arkansas-pine-bluff-golden-lions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arkansas-Pine Bluff<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that forced him to sit the second half. Texas Tech coach\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/joey-mcguire-131764\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joey McGuire<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0said the injury that occurred Saturday is to the same leg.<\/p>\n<p>Morton has thrown for 1,501 yards and 13 touchdowns to three interceptions. He is a big part of the reason that the No. 7 Red Raiders have one of the top offenses in the country, ranking first in yards per game (558.2) and second in points per game (47.5).<\/p>\n<p>Kickoff against the Sun Devils is scheduled for 4 p.m. ET on Saturday in Tempe on FOX. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech quarterback Behren Morton is expected to be listed as questionable on the Wednesday night Big 12&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":307693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[35227,1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-307692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-behren-morton-21-eastland","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}