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Andrew Mukuba injury update: Steve Sarkisian updates status entering bye week

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Andrew Mukuba (Will Gallagher/Inside Texas)

Texas transfer safety Andrew Mukuba is “on the mend,” according to Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian on the SEC coaches teleconference on Wednesday. Mukuba has been dealing with a left knee injury.

And as Texas is off this week before a matchup with Florida, Mukuba is still on ice, but getting better. He didn’t play against Vanderbilt on Oct. 26 after injuring his knee against Georgia.

Sarkisian didn’t offer much detail on the safety’s status, but he seems to be trending in the right direction. And a clearer answer will come in about a weeks time.

“He’s on the mend. I think he’s making good progress,” Sarkisian said. “Probably be a better answer next week as we get back into game week mode.” 

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Mukuba has been an effective force on the backend for Texas this season, intercepting a pair of passes in seven games.

Sarkisian has effusively praised his quarterback this week

Quinn Ewers was benched late in the first half against Georgia on Oct. 19 after passing for just 17 yards and turning the ball over twice over the course of Texas’ first six drives. Although he returned to action in the third quarter and dialed up a pair of touchdown passes, his comeback bid fell short.

What followed was a weird week, complete with a false, and since-deleted, report, which briefly surfaced on social media and declared that Ewers was sitting the rest of the 2024 season to prepare for the NFL Draft.

That momentary hoopla, along with conversation about the decision head coach Steve Sarkisian made to pull Ewers for redshirt freshman quarterback Arch Manning mid-game, created outside noise.

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Ewers tuned it out and bounced back on the road against then-No. 25 Vanderbilt this past weekend. He also bounced back from in-game adversity, overcoming a pair of tipped-ball interceptions during a 27-24 victory.

After the first of those two interceptions, Ewers completed 17 passes in a row, including eight on a nine-play, 75-yard touchdown drive that matched Vanderbilt’s game-opening score.

Sarkisian was asked postgame if Ewers would have responded to that first interception — his second pass of the day — the same way two years ago when he was a first-time starter.

“I don’t know. I don’t think so,” Sarkisian said. “I think it’s just a real credit to him, even coming off of last week’s game. When doubt creeps into your mind, that’s a killer. And I didn’t think there was a sliver of doubt in his mind. It was bad luck. He made a great read. Ball got tipped, interception. He came right back out, believed in his preparation and in the plan and really executed at a very high level tonight.

“So I really want to credit him and his maturity, his belief in himself, his confidence. And I want to credit his teammates because I think all week those guys were making sure they were pumping him up and getting him ready to go.”