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Scooby Wright injury update: Arizona LB expected to miss 2-3 weeks after knee surgery

By Patrick Schmidt

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Arizona linebacker Scooby Wright is expected to miss two-three weeks after undergoing knee surgery.

Scooby Wright is expected to miss two-three weeks after undergoing surgery to repair a lateral meniscus tear in his left, according to Brian Hamilton of Sports Illustrated.

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While it’s never good to lose your best player for two-three weeks like the Arizona Wildcats have to do, this has to be a sigh of relief considering how bad things looked after Wright pulled himself out in Thursday’s opener against UTSA.

Anytime a football player leaves with a knee injury it’s only natural to expect the worse and brace for a torn ACL, but the first reports we got after the game on Thursday from head coach Rich Rodriguez about not believing it was an ACL or MCL injury, this is almost a best-case scenario.

Arizona doesn’t have any open weeks on their schedule this year, but Wright could return for the start of Pac-12 play when the UCLA Bruins come to Tucson. Arizona travels to Nevada before hosting Northern Arizona, so if Wright only has to miss those two games, that’s something the Cats defense can certainly overcome, even if they looked shaky without him in the opener.

Provided the winner of the Nagurski, Lombardi and Bednarik returns for UCLA, there’s no reason to count out Arizona in the Pac-12 race like it would have been easy to do had he been out for a longer period.

Wright led the nation in tackles. tackles for loss, forced fumbles and was third in sacks last year.

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