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Glenn Earl injured (1 Viewer)

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/5047163.html

The Texans showed they have a lot more to worry about than a preseason loss, starting with the loss of strong safety Glenn Earl. He suffered a foot injury that probably will require surgery and should cost him the first several games of regular season at the least.

"It doesn't look good, but we'll know more Sunday," coach Gary Kubiak said.
My guess is that CC Brown moves to SS. Von Hutchins, Brandon Harrison or Simmons battle for FS.
 
Glenn Earl suffered a foot injury that will probably require surgery. Likely to miss at least a month of the regular season, perhaps more.

It isn't clear who will replace him, and hopefully no one was counting on Earl as a starter even in a deep IDP league. But I think it's worth mentioning the guy I think has the best chance to start, Von Hutchins. In all 3 training camps I went to he was the standout player on the second team, having at least 2 interceptions I remember and a couple of nice plays in pass coverage. He's a former cornerback converted to safety and is a little undersized at 5'9" and 181lbs. I'd expect CC Brown to move over to strong safety and Hutchins to replace him at free safety. Not a guy I'd go pick up but keep an eye on him because he seems to have a bit of a ball hawk mentality.

The other guys who will be competing to move into the starter spot are probably Jason Simmons and rookie Brandon Harrison. Don't have anything concrete to add on either guy.

 
Glad he is injuried now since he always ends up on my teams and ends up getting injuried anyways. At least now, there won't be any temptation to draft him.

 
CC Brown had decent numbers last year playing FS. Any idea how much (if any) the move to SS will help his numbers this year???

 
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Earl out for the year...from Houstontexans.com

opening statement) “I’ll talk about the injuries first. The ones that are most significant of course: (strong safety) Glenn (Earl). He does have the Lisfranc injury. He’ll have surgery on Tuesday. The recovery on this is nine to 12 months, so Glenn’s season is done. He will go on injured reserve. Glenn was having a fine camp and he’s a big part of this football team, so that’s a big blow to this football team. He definitely will be out for the season.
(on if free safety C.C. Brown is going to move into strong safety Glenn Earl’s spot) “Yep, probably so. Yeah, that is what we will do. We will move him down and work Von Hutchins and Jason Simmons at the free safety. Dexter McCleon will become a bigger part of that package until we find out who is going to be his replacement, and we will continue to get those two young kids ready to play. I think they have got a ways to go. (General manager) Rick Smith is looking at a lot of availability out there from the stand point of safety and corner. We are going to have to find a couple football players, and not just bodies, we have to find some guys to come in here and compete. So we are going to have to take a hard look at some guys here in the next 24 hours.”(on what Brown had done in camp) “Brown has played well – he is just a quiet and accountable guy. He has had a good camp. Last night, he was solid. He will miss Glenn Earl – those two guys have played so much football together. So he is going to learn to have to go back there and work with another guy and talk with another guy, so that’s probably going to be the biggest adjustment. We are losing a good football player. Earl had really stepped his play up and I thought he was on his way to having a fine year. It is just an unfortunate situation, when he stepped up to make that tackle there in the first quarter and his foot got bent back. That is just not a very fortunate deal.”(on what he likes about safety Von Hutchins so far, from camp and OTA’s) “Well, he is a very smart player. (Defensive backs coach) Jon Hoke and (defensive coordinator) Richard Smith can do a lot of things with him. He can handle a lot of information. He is the guy that when your on the field if the team goes to three wide receivers on you, you can still feel comfortable keeping your base defense on the field so you can cover from the safety position. So, I think his versatility and knowledge of the game can give him an excellent chance to get on the field a lot this year.
 
update: Jason Simmons starting at SS, and CC Brown staying at FS

(on whether he decided to keep C.C. Brown at the free safety position) “That’s what we did. We left him there, and we just moved Jason (Simmons) up and we’re going to give Jason the opportunity. Jason played well the other night, so that’s the way we’re going to work, but we are also going to move around a little bit. (There has been) a little experimentation, but I think Jason deserves the opportunity to start, so we’ll see.” (on the safety position) “We left C.C. (Brown) alone, and then Jason (Simmons) just stepped up and is starting. That’s the way we’re operating right now. You may see us do some different things on the practice field, but when we start this game this week, Jason is replacing Glenn Earl
Smells like this is not locked in stone...so i will update for the deep leaguers as I get info.
 

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