Aggies' Anderson avoided 'catastrophic injury'

Texas A&M information Bryce Anderson avoided "catastrophic injury" aft being taken to a hospital for investigating pursuing a superior collision successful Saturday's crippled astatine Notre Dame.

Anderson returned to field with the squad pursuing the crippled and is continuing to retrieve from the incident, which took spot precocious successful the archetypal fractional of Saturday's crippled erstwhile his caput collided with Notre Dame choky extremity Eli Raridon connected a 25-yard passing play.

The elder from Beaumont, Texas, initially laic motionless connected the field, and aesculapian unit spent astir 10 minutes attending to him earlier stabilizing his cervix and carting him off. Texas A&M said aboriginal Saturday that Anderson had feeling successful each of his limbs.

"We are thankful to study that nary catastrophic wounded was found," Texas A&M said successful a connection Wednesday. "Bryce is successful large spirits, and our absorption present is connected supporting him done his recovery."

Aggies manager Mike Elko said the squad expects Anderson to instrumentality astatine immoderate constituent aboriginal this season.

"It was a blessing to person him connected the level with us," Elko said. "It was evidently large for each the boys to spot him. It was large that that we benignant of skated done what could person perchance been a really, truly atrocious situation. He's inactive successful the process of recovering, and truthful hard to benignant of gauge a timeline close now, but we bash expect that we'll person him backmost astatine immoderate point."

Anderson has 10 tackles this season, and has 116 vocation tackles with 2 interceptions, 2 forced fumbles, 3 fumble recoveries and 8 passes defended.