October 24, 2020 | 8: 24pm
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Alabama coach Reduce Saban said junior wide receiver Jaylen Gallop has a high ankle sprain with a rupture and will seemingly be out the remainder of the season if he needs surgical operation.
Gallop was as soon as injure when he took the hole kickoff out to the Alabama 15. He was as soon as tackled by Kenneth George Jr., and Gallop’s superb foot obtained caught between the grass and George’s body. Gallop was as soon as helped off the sphere inserting no weight on his superb foot previous to being carted to the locker room.
Saban said after a 48-17 elevate over Tennessee that it’s a in actuality unhappy time for Gallop and his family with Gallop seemingly needing surgical operation.
“We’re going to soar him help privately with the medical doctors and grab him help to Birmingham and seek what we have got to compose superb away,” Saban said. “If that’s the case, and we’re reasonably obvious that it is, he would seemingly be out for the 365 days.”
Gallop has been one amongst the nation’s high punt returners the past two years and has seldom had the ball kicked his formula this 365 days.
Alabama wide receiver John Metchie III said shedding Gallop in the center of the sport was as soon as no longer easy. No. 2 Alabama completed by beating Tennessee 48-17 without Gallop.
“I deem we responded successfully on specializing in the largest mumble, which is the next play at hand,” Metchie said.
Gallop had 733 yards on punt returns in his career, ranking sixth in Alabama history. Gallop in the intervening time leads all Crimson Tide returners averaging 19.3 yards per punt return in his career, virtually six years higher than 2nd device.
He opened this season with a minimal of 120 yards receiving in every of the first four games and led Alabama with 557 yards on appropriate 25 catches. Gallop was as soon as averaging 22.3 yards per take hold of and had four touchdowns.
