Kentucky Head Coach Joker Phillips all but ruled out his leading rusher seeing the field due to a stinger issue as well as a bruised elbow.
"Locke probably won't go Saturday," Phillips said in a quote released by the school. "From what we saw today, Locke is out. Yesterday we said we would take Derrick, but today we probably won't take Derrick to the hotel."
Sophomore Donald Russell and freshman Raymond Sanders will likely take over the bulk of the running game load, and Phillips expects them to take the ball and run with it, so to speak.
"We have come to a point when we took over seven or eight years ago that we wouldn't make any excuses if a guy was going to miss," Phillips said. "The next guy is expected to step up and make plays and do the things that we expect to get done. I feel comfortable in Donald Russell and Raymond Sanders that they will go in and do the job we are asking them to do."
Another UK player who will have to step up is sophomore Taylor Wyndham. Starting defensive end DeQuin Evans is "probably out" as well according to Phillips because of a sprained ankle, and Wyndham will replace the senior in the starting lineup.
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