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How bad is TCU’s injury situation? A kicker is playing defensive end on the scout team

TCU’s injuries have piled up to the point that a kicker is lining up as a scout team defensive end in practice these days.

“Just to be a body,” coach Gary Patterson said.

That is how depleted TCU is in this injury-riddled season. It’s something that Patterson has never experienced before.

Practice scripts have been adjusted, aimed at getting players healthy and available for Saturday’s game at West Virginia.

“Today, we won’t go inside drill which we usually do on Tuesday, we won’t go pass-rush on each other, we won’t go 1-on-1s,” Patterson said during his weekly media availability.