{"id":65355,"date":"2024-08-11T22:54:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T03:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/?p=65355"},"modified":"2024-08-11T22:54:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T03:54:16","slug":"kentucky-cb-dj-waller-jr-misses-first-scrimmage-with-slight-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/kentucky-cb-dj-waller-jr-misses-first-scrimmage-with-slight-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky CB DJ Waller Jr. misses first scrimmage with slight injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/kentucky-wildcats\/\">Kentucky<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/dj-waller-jr-156546\/\">CB DJ Waller Jr.<\/a> was unable to go in the team\u2019s first scrimmage of fall camp on Saturday due to an injury.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/coach\/mark-stoops-132239\/\">Mark Stoops<\/a> discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/kentucky-wildcats\/news\/dj-waller-jr-injury-kentucky-football-fall-camp-cornerback\/\">Waller\u2019s absence<\/a> after the Wildcats\u2019 game this weekend. He said the transfer corner suffered it following practice on Friday to the extent of not being able to play the following day but with expecting to be back on the field to start this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWaller wasn\u2019t able to play today. He has a slight injury,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WQoZM-xne4M\">said<\/a> Stoops. \u201cShould be back early this week. Got hurt yesterday late I think yesterday after practice doing some extra work but nothing major.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was a significant development both for Waller as well as the team\u2019s secondary. UK is currently looking for a second cornerback to pair alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/maxwell-hairston-86818\/\">Maxwell Hairston<\/a>. This intra-squad game was supposed to settle some of that between him along with names like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/jantzen-dunn-56381\/\">Jantzen Dunn<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/jq-hardaway-68361\/\">JQ Hardaway<\/a> with KSR\u2019s Adam Luckett describing it as \u201ca huge opportunity\u201d for him.<\/p>\n<p>However, with Waller unable to go, he didn\u2019t do anything for himself within that competition.<\/p>\n<p>Waller transferred to Kentucky this<\/p>\n<p><em>This report will be updated further<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/kentucky-wildcats\/news\/kentucky-cb-dj-waller-jr-misses-first-scrimmage-with-slight-injury-mark-stoops-fall-camp\/\">Kentucky CB DJ Waller Jr. misses first scrimmage with slight injury<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/\">On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky CB DJ Waller Jr. was unable to go in the team\u2019s first scrimmage of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65391,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65355\/revisions\/65391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}