The young UConn Huskies defense suffered a big blow on Sunday afternoon when head coach Randy Edsall announced during a teleconference with the local media that middle linebacker Greg Lloyd, Jr. was lost for the season.
Lloyd tore his ACL and MCL while blitzing in the fourth quarter of UConn’s 56-31 win over Syracuse on Saturday afternoon at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, CT.
“You won’t see him in the spring,” UConn Coach Randy Edsall said. “He won’t be ready for the spring. I would hope that he would be ready in August. We’ll know more when they go in and perform the surgery. He was blitzing and his leg was in the ground and a guy got him right there. It was nothing dirty. His leg was in the ground, he got turned and cut.”
The junior linebacker from Clermont, Florida, who had a monster hit in the win over Notre Dame, is second on the Huskies with 91 tackles behind Lawrence Wilson’s 130. He also has one sack this year.
