Arizona LB Scooby Wright out several weeks after injury vs UCLA

After returning for one game, Arizona linebacker Scooby Wright will have to spend some more time on the sidelines

Arizona Wildcats linebacker Scooby Wright returned this past Saturday in his team’s crushing loss to the UCLA Bruins following some time on the shelf rehabbing a meniscus injury that he suffered in Week One of the season. Well, it looks like after that one-game appearance, it will be right back to the rehab table for the best defensive player in the country from last season.

On Monday, Arizona head coach Rich Rodriguez announced that Wright will be out “several weeks” after suffering an injury in that loss to UCLA this past Saturday evening.

Arizona LB Scooby Wright (sprained right foot) will miss several weeks after suffering injury vs UCLA, head coach Rich Rodriguez says.
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) September 28, 2015

According to Rodriguez, this injury has nothing to do with aggravating the previous meniscus injury. Rather, this time around, Wright suffered a foot sprain after just coming down on it wrong. This will lead to some more time spent off of the field, which is the last thing this team needs at the moment.

But, Rodriguez knows that this team has to move along regardless.

“Having Scooby out several weeks is something we’re going to have to deal with,” Rodriguez said via the Arizona Daily Star.

This is a crushing blow for not only the team, but for a young man that came into the season with such high hopes of maybe challenging to become the first pure defensive player to ever win the Heisman Trophy. Those hopes are all but out the window now.

We can only hope that he makes a full recovery and that he can finish out this season as strongly as possible.

After returning for one game, Arizona linebacker Scooby Wright will have to spend some more time on the sidelines

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