Malik Muhammad injury: Texas CB leaves Peach Bowl for locker room evaluation

Texas cornerback Malik Muhammad was shaken up and taken to the locker room with an injury. At the time, Texas led Arizona State 17-5 in the Peach Bowl in the third quarter.

Coming into the game, Muhammad had 28 tackles and six pass deflections. In his second season, Muhammad has been a key cog to the Texas secondary.

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It wasn’t immediately clear what the injury was for Muhammad as he was slow to get up and was not ushered to the medical tent, but straight to the locker room.

Malik Muhammad taken to locker room

Muhammad tasted the playoff last season with Texas and coming into the game, the Longhorns already won a CFP contest. But, it’s a longer road to a national championship.

“Well, you know, college football has been very unique over the years, and you gotta think it wasn’t that long ago, there was no National Championship game,” head coach Steve Sarkisian said prior to the game. “You went to the bowl game that you were assigned to and everybody won or they lost and then you all decided who the national champion was.

“And then we went to a two-team kind of they played for a National Championship. And then we went to four teams, and now we’re at 12 teams. And ironically, we were really the only sport, us and boxing, that didn’t have a tournament. Right? Everybody else always had a tournament, whether it’s Major League Baseball, basketball, football, whatever it was, the NCAA basketball tournament.”

Without Muhammad on the field, Texas was still able to limit Arizona State to a field goal and still led 17-8 going into the fourth quarter.