Jaylin Williams will travel to Georgia game, not expected to play for Auburn

Ahead of the Auburn Tigers men’s basketball team’s Saturday afternoon matchup on the road against the Georgia Bulldogs, head coach Bruce Pearl provided an update on the status of forward Jaylin Williams.

Recently, Williams was listed as out indefinitely with a leg injury he suffered in the Tigers’ 70-59 loss to the Kentucky Wildcats. According to Pearl, his veteran forward is healthy enough to travel with the team and will join them in Athens, GA, for Saturday’s competition. However, after that, everything else is still up in the air.

“Bruce Pearl says Jaylin Williams will travel with the team to Georgia, doesn’t anticipate him playing… after that, ‘we’ll go from there,’” wrote Auburn Live’s Justin Hokanson via X.

Williams not expected to need surgery in latest knee injury update

Hokanson was also the one who broke the news on the severity of Williams’s injury when he tweeted out the following update on the morning after he’d suffered the injury:

“Source: Auburn’s Jaylin Williams isn’t expected to need surgery and will return soon after a knee injury against Kentucky. Williams underwent his MRI this morning. That’s great news for the Tigers.”

He added that the timetable on a return isn’t clear. However, it appears he will certainly be back at some point.

“We’ll see how long Williams is out, that’ll be up to Bruce Pearl and Williams.”

Given how bad the injury looked at the time, plus Williams’ inability to return to the game, there was fear he’d suffered a major injury. But luckily, it looks like he’ll be good to return in the near future.

That’s a big sigh of relief for Bruce Pearl, who seemed pretty worried about the senior leader after the loss on Saturday night. He made this comment when asked about the loss of his veteran leader at the time:

“We were in range when he got hurt. We think he’s gotta have something. We think it’s something. Not just a bang.”

Well, there is some injury to Jaylin Williams, but the Tigers can eliminate the worst-case scenario of a season-ending knee injury.

Williams went up for what could have been a remarkable dunk in the second half, but missed, and went to the ground awkwardly. He was down on the pain for a number of minutes and had his right knee checked out by trainers for a few minutes, before heading to the Auburn locker room. Williams could not put any pressure on his right leg as his left the floor with assistance from medical staff.