Junior quarterback suffered the injury that requires surgery in the Bulls’ battle with Tulane last Saturday
TAMPA, OCT. 18, 2022– A USF football program that has been hit hard by injuries during the 2022 season took another blow Tuesday when Head Coach Jeff Scott announced junior quarterback Gerry Bohanon Jr. (Earle, Ark.) will miss the remainder of the season due to a shoulder injury that will require surgery to repair.
Bohanon, who was playing his best football at USF in his last three games, suffered the injury to his right throwing shoulder during an 8-yard run in the first half of Saturday’s contest with Tulane. Bohanon left the game with just over 6:30 to play in the half and the Bulls leading 14-10. To that point in the game, he was 7-of-8 for 109 yards and a touchdown passing and had run for 59 yards and a 33-yard touchdown.
Over his last two-and-a-half games, Bohanon passed for 501 yards, six touchdowns and no interceptions and ran for 250 yards and two touchdowns, including a career-best 117 yards rushing at No. 24 Cincinnati as he led scoring drives of 75, 65, 75 and 88 yards in the close, 28-24, loss to the Bearcats. Bohanon, who led Baylor to a Big 12 title and Sugar Bowl victory in 2021, finishes his first USF season with 1,070 yards passing, six touchdowns and six interceptions while completing 57 percent of his passes. He is also the Bulls’ second leading rusher having posted 386 yards and three touchdowns on the ground.
Bohanon is the latest in a string of injuries that have hit 21 starters or members of the two-deep. USF has also lost for the season starters in left tackle Donovan Jennings (leg), defensive tackle Rashad Cheney Jr. (ankle) and wide receiver Ajou Ajou (ankle/groin) and veteran back-up linebacker Brian Norris Jr. (knee).
Players that have missed all or parts of games with injury (most missing two or more games) through USF’s first seven games include on offense running back Kelley Joiner Jr., running back Jaren Mangham, wide receiver Xavier Weaver, wide receiver Jimmy Horn Jr., wide receiver Khafre Brown, wide receiver Dequan Stanley and center Brad Cecil. Defensive players include cornerback Daquan Evans, linebacker Antonio Grier Jr., safety Mekhi LaPointe, defensive tackle Rashawn Yates, safety TJ Robinson, cornerback Christian Williams, safety Matthew Hill, linebacker DJ Gordon IV and defensive end Jonathan Ross.
USF is on a bye this week and will return to action next Saturday (Oct. 29) at Houston in the first of back-to-back road games (Nov. 5 at Temple) that will close out an unprecedented stretch of six of seven games played away from Tampa, including four-straight from Sept. 17 through Oct. 8. USF will return to Raymond James Stadium on Sat., Nov. 12 vs. SMU, for just its second home game in two months.
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The USF football program first took the field in 1997 and celebrated its 25th season in 2021 while breaking ground on a $22 million Indoor Performance Facility. The Bulls have posted 15 winning seasons, earned 16 All-America selections, including 2021 consensus All-American Brian Battie, and 31 first-team all-conference selections. USF has had 30 players selected in the NFL Draft and has made 10 bowl games appearances (going 6-4 in those games), posting a program-record six straight appearances from 2005-2010 and most recently making four straight bowl appearances from 2015-18. The Bulls posted back-to-back 10-win seasons in 2016 and 2017, logging a program-record 11-2 mark in 2016 while finishing both seasons ranked in the Top 25. USF spent a program-record 20 straight weeks ranked in the Top 25 during the 2016 and 2017 seasons and reached as high as No. 2 in the national rankings during the 2007 season.
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