Swinney updates injuries on Lawrence, Muse

by Tony Crumpton - Assoc. Editor - Sun Oct 29 18:27:07 GMT-04:00 2017

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney spoke to reporters during his Sunday teleconference and shared an injury update on defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence and safety Tanner Muse.

"That's just football man," Swinney said about a cut block on Lawrence on the third play against Georgia Tech. "Georgia Tech they play within the rules and you got to play through it. He's fine. A little sore last night but he said he felt good today. That's just football."

Swinney said that they will take another x-ray of Muse's hand on Monday morning after he broke a bone in his hand on Saturday night.

"Actually Van (Smith) had to play with a cast earlier," Swinney said. "He broke a little bone in his thumb and had to wear a cast. We have had it a few times. He will be reevaluated in the morning. They are going to do another X-Ray in the morning but I don't think it will be anything that will keep him out of being able to play. Just got to protect it. It will certainly it will limit his ball skills, but still should be able to do everything else. They will re-evaluate him in the morning and we will go from there."

Swinney shared terrible injury news on walk-on redshirt freshman defensive lineman James Edwards.

"The biggest injury we had was James Edwards," Swinney said. "He is a walk-on freshman d-lineman for us. He actually dislocated his kneecap in warmups. That was the first time I have had that happen. That was definitely a bad injury, and he is going to have to have surgery on Tuesday and will probably miss three or four months. I really hate that for him. Great young man. He was redshirting this year and does a great job for us on the scout team."

The rest of the team is going through treatment but came out OK overall despite the rainy and tough conditions on Saturday night.

"We came through it pretty good," Swinney said. "We had a few guys banged up. You going to play a tough physical game so guys will have some little treatment type things they need to take care of. But we came through the game pretty good."