USC Football: Deion Sanders’ Son Remains Questionable For Huge Saturday Matchup With Trojans

Will he suit up?

With today's matchup against the buzziest club in college football looming, it remains unclear just how many Sanders family members your USC Trojans will be seeing on the field today.

That's because, as Jack Baer of Yahoo Sports explains, safety Shilo Sanders (son to head coach Deion and brother to quarterback Shedeur) may not be available due to a scary injury he incurred last weekend, in a 42-6 blowout defeat against Oregon. A tackle had him dealing with an uncomfortable physical side effect, and the ailment got so bad that once his team returned home he was checked into a local ER.

Colorado will be facing an undefeated, heavily favored USC team with one of the best offenses in college football, led by reigning Heisman Trophy winner (and probable 2024 No. 1 NFL draft pick) Caleb Williams.

Shilo was a standout for an otherwise-beleaguered Buffaloes squad last weekend. He notched seven tackles, including six on his own.

The younger Sanders has yet to be cleared for play, as he grapples with uncomfortable physical fallout from the injury. Deion unpacked the trouble on his weekly Colorado Football Coaches Show (h/t to our colleague Patrick Andres of Sports Illustrated for the transcription).

“Praying for him," Sanders said. "I don’t even know how he did this. I mean, what’s going on with the kidney in Boulder? What’s going on with us right now?"

"I mean, he got on the plane, and he was like, ‘Dad, I’m peeing blood ...’ So we landed, and we went straight to the hospital to check him out. He was cool. But he can’t participate until he stops urinating blood.”

That sounds like a pretty reasonable hurdle to clear.

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