Gridiron Now · Jan 26, 2017
Another QB injury? Auburn has some concerns with John Franklin III
Any healthy quarterbacks left on the Plains? The injury issues just keep building and building for Auburn during the offseason.
The Tigers are expressing concern about cramping in quarterback John Franklin III’s throwing hand.
Those cramps appeared during the Sugar Bowl, when the Tigers lost to Oklahoma 35-19, taking him out of action and forcing coach Gus Malzahn to insert third-stringer Jeremy Johnson after starter Sean White also left with injury.
“That’s the first time it’s happened with us,” Malzahn said Wednesday after the second Senior Bowl practice in Mobile, Alabama. “It was something new. We’ll look at him.”