3. Will Vernon Adams Jr.’s broken finger keep him out of the lineup?
Oregon (No. 12) shouldn’t have much trouble dispatching Georgia State at home on Saturday, but at this point it’s not known if Adams will play or if head coach Mark Helfrich will keep him on the sideline.
Watching Adams against Michigan State in Week 2, it seemed apparent that he wasn’t as accurate as we saw in the team’s opener against Eastern Washington. Reports of a finger injury emerged on game day, but it wasn’t until this Tuesday that we learned the quarterback has a broken finger on his throwing hand.
Helfrich brushed off questions of Adams’ availability when asked.
“We don’t really talk about those kind of player availability kind of things other than the best guy for us is going to be out there playing. … Like everybody is less than 100 percent at some point in the season,” Oregon coach Mark Helfrich said Tuesday, via ESPN.
If Adams is held out of action, then Jeff Lockie will surely get the start after losing the quarterback competition to the graduate transfer a few weeks ago. This will be an interesting story to continue tracking as Oregon prepares for its Pac-12 schedule, which begins in Week 4 when the Ducks host Utah (No. 21).