Feeney likely out for season, Wilson pushing quarterback decision to end of week

Sophomore starting right guard Dan Feeney will likely miss the entire 2013 season
after suffering a lisfranc injury that will require surgery to his foot, IU Coach Kevin
Wilson said Monday.

Feeney, an ESPN.com Big Ten All-Freshman Team member in 2012 , started all
12 games last season, an IU record for a true freshman offensive lineman. The 6-foot-4, 310-pound lineman did not allow a sack in 935 snaps and finished second on the team with 54 knockdowns, according to the IU media guide.

“You know you kind of feelseveral players who could fill the void left by the loss of
Feeney. “(Sophomore) Jake Reed has been playing center and guard, (junior) Bernard Taylor you know of course is starting, (sophomore David) Kaminski’s done very, very
well at camp, (sophomore) Ralston Evans, those guys you can kick in there,” he
said. “It’s a position where we’re deep enough.”

Redshirt freshman Jacob Bailey is listed as the second-string right guard behind
Feeney in the IU media guide. Wilson said he is also still trying to figure out his starting quarterback, a decision that will not be made until at least Friday, if not later.
He did not specify a date by which he plans to have a decision made.

Junior Cameron Coffman, and sophomores Tre Roberson and Nate Sudfeld are competing for the starting position. Wilson said none of the three players have stood out from the other two.

“They’re all fighting pretty good, kind of a close call, and they’re all solid players,
they’re all teammates, they all got to be better,” he said. Wilson said they’re very
similar statistically, and he said their peers respect all three of them as leaders.

Wilson and Offensive Coordinator Seth Littrell said IU is not going to change its
offense for one quarterback. “They all have different strengths, but we’re still running the same offense, whether it be movement plays, dropback plays, passes, you name it,” Wilson said. “We’ll just keep rotating them the way we’re doing.”

When asked if a twoquarterback system could be an option for the Hoosiers’ offense this season, senior tight end Ted Bolser said for all he knows, “there could be a three-quarterback system.”

“We’ve just got to roll with it, whatever he chooses,” he said. “He’s (Wilson) an offensive genius, so we trust him.”
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