Fresno State QB Ford Childress ‘likely’ out for the year
The hits keep coming for Fresno State quarterbacks.
Junior Ford Childress – the third quarterback to start this season for the Bulldogs – suffered an “internal injury” during Saturday’s loss to San Jose State. According to the Fresno Bee, Childress had surgery Sunday morning is “likely to miss the rest of the season.”
“Sometimes when it rains, it pours,” head coach Tim DeRuyter said, per the Bee. “But you know what, no one is going to feel sorry for the ‘Dogs so we better not feel sorry for ourselves either. We have to just buckle up and find a way.”
The Bulldogs previously lost freshman Chason Virgil to a season-ending clavicle injury in last weekend’s loss to Utah. To make matters worse, redshirt sophomore Zack Greenlee was suspended for the SJSU game following an arrest for public drunkenness.
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Those setbacks forced Childress, a West Virginia transfer, into the starting lineup Saturday night. Childress threw for 159 yards, two touchdowns and an interception on 19-of-32 throwing against the Spartans. DeRuyter said Childress “did not remember” which hit caused the injury.
From the Bee:
He told DeRuyter while being treated by medical personnel that he did not remember taking a hit during the game to cause the injury, but when the team returned from San Jose about 3 a.m., Childress was unable to get off the bus.
“(Quarterback) Kilton (Anderson) was back there with him, and I’m up front and he comes and says, ‘Coach, we need a trainer’ so we called (athletic trainer Tony Hill) and he can’t get up, his stomach is hurting,” DeRuyter said. “We had the doctors there, so they get the ambulance and they took him to Community Medical Center.”
According to the Bee, Greenlee is expected to return from his suspension to start the Bulldogs’ next game at San Diego State. Greenlee started the first two games of the season, but was replaced by Virgil for the Utah game. Greenlee has thrown for 313 yards, six touchdowns and one interception on the season, but has completed only 50 percent of his passes.
With Virgil and Childress out, Fresno has only redshirt freshman Kilton Anderson and freshman walk-on Jesse Hanckel behind Greenlee on the roster. Anderson saw his first career action Saturday night and rushed for 20 yards on two attempts.
The 49-23 to San Jose State dropped the Bulldogs to 1-3 on the season.
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