Isaiah Bond injury update: Texas WR's status revealed on Friday injury report

As an exhilarating season continues for the SEC, Texas and Vanderbilt will play in a game this weekend that should have a surprising number of implications for both programs, with both teams ranked in the AP Top 25 entering the matchup.

With that in mind, the injury report looms large. Both the Longhorns and the Commodores have dealt with some significant injuries in the last few weeks, and that could help swing the outcome of Saturday’s game.

One thing is for certain, the good news for Texas is that it now has both starting quarterbacks Quinn Ewers and Arch Manning available after the former dealt with an oblique injury earlier in the season. Now, how Texas plans to play its quarterbacks could remain a mystery until gametime against Vanderbilt.

The Commodores, on the other hand, has mostly avoided any disastrous injuries, with most being either short-term knocks or to players who weren’t playing a major role. In any case, you can view the injury report for both teams below.

Texas Longhorns Injury Report:

• CB Derek Williams Jr. – Out
• RB CJ Baxter – Out
• RB Christian Clark – Out
• RB Velton Gardner – Out
• DB Andrew Mukuba – Out
• WR Isaiah Bond – Out

Vanderbilt Commodores Injury Report:

• DL Zaylin Wood – Out
• CB Mark Davis – Out
• OL Grayson Morgan – Out
• CB Kolbey Taylor – Questionable

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Moreover, Vanderbilt coach Clark Lea is in a tough spot entering this week because of the Texas result a week ago. The Longhorns dropped their first game of the season, falling to Georgia. That could leave the Commodores facing a pissed-off Longhorns bunch.

“I think you can take that and go either way with it,” Lea said on Tuesday. “When we’ve had a tough loss, the game at Missouri, there’s a world where that can be taken as heartbreaking, and how do you come back from that? How devastated is the locker room?

“You can take it and say the guys will be motivated, they’re so close, they’re going to keep inching towards that breakthrough. It can swing either way.”

Especially with a mostly clean injury report, Lea is anticipating getting the very good version of Texas on Saturday.

“My expectation is that they are going to come in here ready to play, and what we need to do in response is not match their energy, but set the tone and dictate the energy on our end, again, to be the best representation of our program we can be,” Lea said.

On3’s Thomas Goldkamp contributed to this article.