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Texas Tech football loses starting defensive tackle for season with knee injury
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The Texas Tech football team will be without starting defensive tackle E'Maurion "Dooda" Banks for the rest of the 2024 season, the team announced in its availability report released Monday.
Banks was carted off the field in the first quarter of Saturday's 59-35 loss to Baylor with an apparent lower-body injury. Head coach Joey McGuire said postgame it was a knee injury for Banks, the extent of which was not known at the time. Texas Tech does not comment on specific injuries to players beyond the availability report, per team policy.
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"We lose a leader," McGuire said. "... You're losing a guy that's really physical. He's got some really good length"
Defensive coordinator Tim DeRuyter revealed that Banks will have surgery "in the next day or two."
Banks ― who started six of the team's first seven games ― is the fifth player out for the season with a knee injury for Texas Tech this season, joining outside linebackers Dylan Spencer and Joseph Adedire , offensive lineman Vinny Sciury and running back Cam'Ron Valdez.
Defensive back Javeon Wicox (knee) and offensive lineman Dylan Shaw (hand) are once again listed as out for Saturday's game at TCU .
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Players listed as questionable for this week's game include receiver/returner Drae McCray (head), offensive lineman Sterling Porcher (ankle), linebacker Bryce Ramirez (lower leg) and defensive back Marcus Ramon-Edwards (head).
Kickoff announced for Texas Tech football 's trip to Iowa State
Another new kickoff time was announced by the Big 12 on Monday.
Texas Tech's trip to Ames next week (Nov. 2) to take on Iowa State will begin at 2:30 p.m. The game is schedule to broadcast on ESPN.
It will be the second week in a row the Red Raiders begin their game at 2:30 p.m. with the same kickoff time announced for this week's matchup at TCU, which was announced on Sunday.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Another Texas Tech football player out for season with knee injury
