Kyron Drones injury update: Brent Pry shares latest after Virginia Tech QB's procedure

Virginia Tech head coach Brent Pry shared the latest on QB Kyron Drones following the signal caller’s procedure. The injury is still undisclosed but Drones is expected back healthy for the season.

But because of that, he did not play in Saturday’s spring game. Neither did fellow quarterback William “Pop” Watson, who is also dealing with injury.

As far as the recovery for Drones is concerned, it’s all about managing the rehab after the procedure. It’ll be key if he’s going to be back under center sooner rather than later.

“Kyron had his procedure on Wednesday,” Pry said. “Went well. Pop has a soft tissue injury. He did it on Tuesday, and you know, we were hoping he’d be able to go today, and it just wasn’t well enough. If it had been a true game, we know he would have dressed and given it a real shot, but I didn’t want to set him back. So it just didn’t make sense.”

Pry said Drones was dealing with some soreness that led them to look for outside opinions on it, which determined he needed a minor procedure. Virginia Tech wanted to go about it that way in hopes that he’ll be able to play for the duration of when they’ll need him from this summer through the fall.

“Yeah, he, uh, he got a little bit sore and, uh. You know, I said let’s reach out, let’s ask the experts, you know, what, what can we do to, to get this guy where he can be 100% for a full season and, you know, and some of the, the answers we got said, hey, let’s, let’s shut him down, let’s do this procedure,” Pry said. “He’ll be back rolling pretty quick. It gives him a better chance to stay healthy, which is what we all want. Had a great winter. He had a great first half of spring. You know, we could have rested him a couple days and brought him back and we might’ve been dealing with the same thing in the summer and again in the fall.”

Drones has been Virginia Tech’s QB1 over the past two seasons. He has, in 22 games, thrown for 165.8 yards per game on 59.3% completion with 27 touchdowns and nine interceptions. He’s posting 217 yards per game in total with the 52.5 he’s running for as well with eleven scores on the ground.

However, Drones would miss four of their final five games, including their last two in the regular season and their bowl game a month later, with a foot injury that may or may not be related to this now. He came into this portion of the year healthier but, just under three weeks later, he’s sidelined again and set to rehab for the next two months going into the summertime.