Tennessee starting choky extremity Ethan Davis will miss the remainder of the 2026 season aft suffering an ACL injury, manager Josh Heupel confirmed Monday. The 6-foot-5, 247-pound elder from Atlanta was injured during the No. 15 Volunteers’ 45-24 triumph astatine Georgia Tech connected Saturday. Davis scored Tennessee’s archetypal touchdown connected a 25-yard reception from freshman backmost Faizon Brandon earlier leaving the crippled successful the 4th quarter.
Heupel said Davis was wounded erstwhile a Georgia Tech subordinate fell connected his legs during a tackle. Davis was capable to jog disconnected the tract astatine the time, but further valuation revealed the season-ending injury. “I hatred it for Ethan, the enactment that helium enactment into it, the maturation of the idiosyncratic and the player, that the season’s chopped short, but the adjacent guy’s got to beryllium prepared and instrumentality vantage of their opportunity,” Heupel said.
The wounded is simply a significant setback for Tennessee, arsenic Davis had emerged arsenic the team’s starting choky extremity aft overcoming an injury-plagued offseason. He opened the play with touchdown catches successful each of the Volunteers’ archetypal 2 games and was coming disconnected a 2025 run successful which helium caught 21 passes for 257 yards and 2 touchdowns. Davis has 39 receptions for 433 yards and six touchdowns successful 26 vocation games, with erstwhile injuries including a breached collarbone successful 2023 and a enarthrosis nervus contented successful 2025.
Sophomore DaSaahn Brame is expected to instrumentality implicit arsenic Tennessee’s superior choky end. The 6-foot-5, 240-pound Brame has played successful the Volunteers’ 12-personnel packages but has constricted accumulation arsenic a receiver, with 7 catches for 70 yards implicit his archetypal 2 seasons. South Alabama transportation Trent Thomas and freshman Luca Wolf are besides expected to spot accrued opportunities arsenic Tennessee prepares to big Kennesaw State connected Saturday earlier opening SEC play against No. 1 Texas connected Sept. 26.
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