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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- "Top-ranked Florida may have a bigger concern than the flu bug right now.
The team's receiving corps is in disarray, with Carl Moore and Andre Debose probably out for the season, and starters Deonte Thompson and Riley Cooper battling injuries.
Throw in the fact that tight end Aaron Hernandez and receiver Justin Williams missed time because of flulike symptoms, and the Gators (3-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) aren't sure who will be running routes Saturday at Kentucky (2-0, 0-0).
"Right now, our receiving corps is not up to Florida standards," coach Urban Meyer said.
Not even close, really.
One of the main questions coming into the season was how would the Gators replace last year's leading receivers, Percy Harvin and Louis Murphy.
Meyer thought Thompson, Cooper, Moore and Debose would pick up the slack. But Thompson, a deep threat who was expected to be Tim Tebow's primary target, has been slowed by a hamstring injury. Cooper, who returned for his senior year despite signing a lucrative baseball contract with the Texas Rangers, has a pinched nerve and a chronic foot problem.
Moore, another senior, is out indefinitely because of a back injury. And Debose, the prize of Florida's recruiting class, had season-ending surgery to repair a torn hamstring tendon.
All those injuries to receivers reminds Meyer of 2005, when Andre Caldwell broke his right leg early in the season, Dallas Baker missed time because of a broken rib and a punctured lung, and Jemalle Cornelius was sidelined with a high-ankle sprain."
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...ers.ap/index.html?eref=si_ncaaf#ixzz0S7jQqXB8
The team's receiving corps is in disarray, with Carl Moore and Andre Debose probably out for the season, and starters Deonte Thompson and Riley Cooper battling injuries.
Throw in the fact that tight end Aaron Hernandez and receiver Justin Williams missed time because of flulike symptoms, and the Gators (3-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) aren't sure who will be running routes Saturday at Kentucky (2-0, 0-0).
"Right now, our receiving corps is not up to Florida standards," coach Urban Meyer said.
Not even close, really.
One of the main questions coming into the season was how would the Gators replace last year's leading receivers, Percy Harvin and Louis Murphy.
Meyer thought Thompson, Cooper, Moore and Debose would pick up the slack. But Thompson, a deep threat who was expected to be Tim Tebow's primary target, has been slowed by a hamstring injury. Cooper, who returned for his senior year despite signing a lucrative baseball contract with the Texas Rangers, has a pinched nerve and a chronic foot problem.
Moore, another senior, is out indefinitely because of a back injury. And Debose, the prize of Florida's recruiting class, had season-ending surgery to repair a torn hamstring tendon.
All those injuries to receivers reminds Meyer of 2005, when Andre Caldwell broke his right leg early in the season, Dallas Baker missed time because of a broken rib and a punctured lung, and Jemalle Cornelius was sidelined with a high-ankle sprain."
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...ers.ap/index.html?eref=si_ncaaf#ixzz0S7jQqXB8
