Sooners QB Mateer will miss time for hand injury

Oklahoma backmost John Mateer volition miss clip owed to a manus wounded that volition necessitate surgery.

Mateer suffered the wounded successful the archetypal 4th of Saturday's triumph implicit Auburn, Oklahoma said successful a statement. He finished the crippled going 24-for-36 for 271 yards and a touchdown, and besides moving for different touchdown successful the 4th quarter.

"After consulting with aesculapian experts, it became wide that country is the champion enactment for John and his short- and semipermanent future," manager Brent Venables said successful the release. "He's highly disappointed helium volition miss immoderate crippled enactment but is anxious to close the contented and determination forward. As helium is with everything, we cognize helium volition beryllium assertive with his rehabilitation and enactment to instrumentality to the tract arsenic rapidly arsenic possible."

An aboriginal favourite to triumph the Heisman Trophy, Mateer is expected to instrumentality astatine immoderate constituent this season, the schoolhouse said. Mateer is successful his archetypal play with Oklahoma aft transferring from Washington State.

Sophomore Michael Hawkins Jr. volition commencement the seventh-ranked Sooners' adjacent crippled against Kent State connected Oct. 4.