Running back Shannon Brooks suffered a non-contact lower leg injury and will miss the entire 2018 season, P.J. Fleck announced Tuesday.
“He suffered a lower leg injury in one of our last days of winter conditioning,” P.J. Fleck said Tuesday. “[It was a] non-contact injury. That’s unfortunate, obviously, that’s not the news everyone wants to hear,” Fleck said.
Head coach P.J. Fleck said Brooks will have surgery soon in preparation for a 2019 return. The senior running back will receive a medical redshirt to return next year. Minnesota will now rely on young running backs like Mohamed Ibrahim, Dominik London, Nolan Edmonds, and Jonathan Femi-Cole to cement themselves as a complementary to senior Rodney Smith.