According to AL.com’s Matt Zenitz, Alabama’s junior defensive end LaBryan Ray is expected to miss the rest of the 2019 season and is questionable for a postseason return. Ray who suffered a foot injury in mid-September, was originally supposed to miss around six weeks when originally diagnosed.
“I would say that LaBryan Ray is probably going to be out for at least six weeks,” Nick Saban said on Sept. 18. “And then it will be, you know, how he is responding to treatment and therapy and all that type of thing. I’m not saying he’s going to be back playing in six weeks. I’m just saying. I know he’ll be six weeks before we can even start back to doing things. So we’ll just have to see how he responds.”
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Ray, who originally injured his foot during the South Carolina game, was a starter for the Crimson Tide defense and expected to be an impact player in 2019.
In three games Ray accumulated nine tackles, one sack and a forced fumble.
Alabama has now lost three key defensive starters for the season due to injury as Ray now joins linebackers Dylan Moses and Joshua McMillon. Five-star freshman running back Trey Sanders is also out for the season due to injury as the Crimson Tide has definitely gotten bit by the bug.
Moses, however, was seen dressed in full pads during Alabama’s game against LSU but there has been no update on his status.
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Patrick Dowd is a Reporter for Touchdown Alabama Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter, via Pat_Dowd77
