{"id":72282,"date":"2024-10-10T13:42:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T18:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/jacobe-covington-injury-update-lincoln-riley-gives-status-of-usc-cornerback\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T13:42:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T18:42:26","slug":"jacobe-covington-injury-update-lincoln-riley-gives-status-of-usc-cornerback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/jacobe-covington-injury-update-lincoln-riley-gives-status-of-usc-cornerback\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacobe Covington Injury Update: Lincoln Riley gives status of USC cornerback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cornerback <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/jacobe-covington-52326\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jacobe Covington<\/a><\/strong> will be questionable for the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/usc-trojans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USC Trojans<\/a><\/strong> this weekend, head coach Lincoln Riley announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Covington was injured late in the game against Minnesota during a punt coverage play. He was helped to the sideline and did not return to the game for what turned out to be the Gophers\u2019 game-winning drive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCovington will be questionable,\u201d Riley said. \u201cHe\u2019s been limited this week. Progressed a little bit faster than maybe we would have thought after the game\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Riley said that immediately after the game, he would have guessed Covington would have been a \u201cfor sure no for this game,\u201d but Riley credited the veteran cornerback and team trainers for \u201cpushing it along.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Covington has started all five games for the Trojans this season but the Trojans do have a pretty deep cornerback room they can rely upon. Jaylin Smith has been a standout there and the Trojans have two veteran options who could play opposite him in DeCarlos Nicholson and John Humphrey. Nicholson played a number of snaps against Minnesota while Humphrey didn\u2019t see any action. Veteran defensive back Prophet Brown could also factor into things there for USC.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/usc-trojans\/news\/jacobe-covington-injury-update-lincoln-riley-gives-status-of-usc-cornerback\/\">Jacobe Covington Injury Update: Lincoln Riley gives status of USC cornerback<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/\">On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornerback Jacobe Covington will be questionable for the USC Trojans this weekend, head coach Lincoln&#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-72282","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\/72282","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=72282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}