Maybe UConn Should Run from the Bone...

DJ Hernandez, Ellis Gaulden, and Brad Kanuch will all miss spring practice in its entirety (or at best, the majority of it).  So thin are the Huskies' at WR that Coach Edsall has taken to trying CB Darius Butler at wideout.  

While this is not what anyone wants to see happen, especially considering that improving the passing game is a top priority for Edsall, it is ultimately irrelevant.  Hernandez has suffered a sprained ankle, Gaulden an unspecified left foot injury, and Kanuch an unspecified quadriceps injury; none of those injuries have warranted surgery (as all three have been working on rehab assignments with the S&C staff) and none will sideline anyone beyond spring.  By all means this untimely rash of injuries is a nuisance, but little more than that.  In fact, the extra practice reps for the Moores and Butler may benefit the team in the long run.  With the transfer of Terrance Jeffers the Huskies are short on experience (and fast) WR's.  Outside of the top two returning WRs, Hernandez and Kanuch, the Huskies return only 52 catches...only 5 of which were credited to a returning wideout.  

Giving the young guys some extra practice time and Butler's a fantastic athlete and he may well play himself into the third or fourth WR spot.  God knows this teams is hurting for a solid deep threat.

In the long run though, these injuries don't make much of a difference on the outlook for the coming season.  Unless someone (Kashif Moore, Butler, Kanuch? Who knows?) steps up in a big, big way and provides Lorenzon with a legitimate deep threat the offense will be predicated on the sturdy and capable legs of Andre Dixon and Donnie Brown and the efficient, albeit not spectacular, passing of Lorenzon.