Miami TE Brevin Jordan goes down with injury vs. Clemson, but expects to play vs. Pitt
Brevin Jordan doesn’t expect a second-half injury scare against the Clemson Tigers to keep him from playing next Saturday when the Miami Hurricanes host the Pittsburgh Panthers.
Jordan, who left Miami’s 42-17 loss to No. 1 Clemson on Saturday in the third quarter with an apparent right shoulder injury, said he expects to play next Saturday at Hard Rock Stadium.
“I’m alright,” the star tight end said.
Jordan caught three passes and was leading the No. 7 Hurricanes with 31 receiving yards when he left the game with his injury. The 6-foot-3, 245-pound junior leads Miami (3-1, 2-1 Atlantic Coast) in every major receiving category with 18 catches, 243 yards and three touchdowns.
The Tigers (4-0, 3-0) knocked Jordan out of the game with 7:48 left in the second quarter and the Hurricanes trailing 28-10. Star quarterback D’Eriq King fired a pass to Jordan on the right sideline and the receiver took a hit as he stretched out his right arm. He walked off the field with his right arm dangling limp, and grabbed at his right shoulder area and collarbone as head athletic trainer Vinny Scavo tended to him on the sideline.
When he left, only one wide receiver had a catch for Miami and no one else had even 20 receiving yards.
“Initial exams,” coach Manny Diaz said. “Hopefully, it’s not too bad, so we’ll find out more when we get back to Miami tomorrow, but, certainly, he’s such a key part of our offense. That was a big miss when he went out.”
Jordan, who was a finalist for the John Mackey Award last year, is on pace for the best season of his highly productive career. Jordan came to Coral Gables from Las Vegas’ Bishop Gorman as the No. 1 tight end in the Class of 2018, according to the 247Sports.com composite rankings, and immediately stepped in as the starter and successor to the mantle of “tight end U.”
As a freshman, Jordan had 32 catches for 287 and four touchdowns, and he followed it up with 35 catches for 495 yards and two touchdowns as a sophomore. Injuries, however, limited the receiver to just 18 total games in his first two seasons with the Hurricanes and he missed the end of last season because of a left foot injury.
Jordan is projected as an early-round pick in the 2021 NFL Draft.
This story was originally published October 10, 2020 at 10:37 PM.
