Alabama Crimson Tide HC Kalen DeBoer still playing coy regarding injury status of star player

The Alabama Crimson Tide are well on their way to becoming 2-0 before next week's test up in Camp Randall .

Certainly not overlooking the USF Bulls, the Tide look to build off a dominant performance from last week.

Getting star LT Kadyn Proctor back in the lineup would surely help, but how likely that is, is still up in the air:

Proctor In or Out?

"He's working towards it," DeBoer said on Wednesday when asked about Kaydn Proctor's availability for Saturday. "We'll have to kind of see right towards the end of the week. If it was up to him, he'd probably be out there. But we gotta be smart, and that means that these days earlier in the week, we've gotta be smart and careful...

"...He's doing really well. He's pretty much living in the training room. He's got strong aspirations to get on the field as fast as possible. So I can't say one way or the other kind of where that would be as of right now with still three days left before we play."

No coach likes to show their cards when it comes to injuries but certainly not with star players and ones who carry the importance to the team that Proctor does. With the meat of the schedule starting next week, you have to wonder if Alabama plays it safe and keeps him out, especially after something so unexpected :

"Yeah, unfortunately, he did, said DeBoer when asked about Proctor sustaining an injury ahead of Saturday's game. "Just caught me by surprise, obviously. And you know, [Proctor] couldn't go tonight, and we'll continue to evaluate tomorrow, just to see the severity of it. And you know, we'll kind of know more here as the week goes on."

Either way, the Tide are over 30-point favorites and looking to get back at the Bulls following last year's performance. How they go about it doing it in terms of player availability is yet to be seen.

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