Shane Beamer provides post-scrimmage injury report
South Carolina football coach Shane Beamer said Saturday evening following the Gamecocks’ first scrimmage of preseason camp that several projected contributors were held out due to injury but none are expected to miss much time.
Beamer listed running backs MarShawn Lloyd and Christian Beal-Smith, linebacker Sherrod Greene and wide receivers Josh Vann, Corey Rucker and Landon Samson as players who missed the Williams-Brice Stadium workout.
“Those are really the only new ones,” Beamer said. “You guys have been out there and kind of seen who hasn’t been going, but those are some guys that didn’t scrimmage today. None of those are long-term issues. Most of them will be back Monday — we’re off tomorrow, we don’t practice, but Monday morning is the next practice — I would imagine most of those guys would be back, (but) a couple of them may go into the middle of next week but nothing long-term from those guys.”
Asked specifically about Lloyd and Beal-Smith, who were both absent from the open portion of Friday’s indoor practice, Beamer reiterated that it’s not a serious issue with either running back.
“With them, they just tweaked something, I think in their foot or ankle or something like that,” Beamer explained. “It’s nothing major at all. They’ll be fine. Both of them, it happened on Thursday, I think, towards the end of practice. They just tweaked something and getting it checked out, letting them recover.”
Beamer added that junior EDGE Jordan Burch has also been limited in practice and was held out of the scrimmage.
“We’re limiting his reps a little bit right now,” Beamer said. “Nothing major from his standpoint. He did not scrimmage today. If we had a game, he probably would have played today. It’s nothing long-term.
“When we sit down with Clint Haggard, our trainer, and we’re kind of mapping out certain guys, not just Jordan, that may be battling some injury things, it’s, ‘Okay, what periods do we need him to be full speed? What periods do we want him in team? What periods do we need him in special teams?’ He’s going in practice, he’s just not going all, however many periods we have each day, on the field. He’ll be fine for Game 1 and is fine right now.”
Additionally, Beamer said that there were some players who were “banged up” in Saturday’s scrimmage but that they were hopeful none were serious.
“It was a physical, physical day out there, for sure,” he said. “We had some guys that got banged up out there, just got to check on their status with Clint in the training room later on. But hopefully nothing long-term with anyone. I don’t think it will be.”
He did not reveal their names.
