Gundy Announces Dalton Cooper Will Miss Time with Injury

The injury bug keeps biting the Cowboys in an already bummer of a season.

At his weekly radio show on Monday, Mike Gundy announced that starting left tackle Dalton Cooper would be out for a while. Cooper exited this past weekend with a lower body injury. The Tulsa World‘s Tyler Waldrep went to Gundy’s radio show and reported the news. Waldrep also reported that Gundy said Garret Rangel broke his collarbone, but that defensive backs Trey Rucker and Dylan Smith, who both missed the BYU game, could return against Baylor this upcoming weekend.

Cooper started all but one of OSU’s games last season, his first with the program after transferring from Texas State. He’s also started all but one of OSU’s games to this point this season. Expect Arizona State transfer Isaia Glass to start in Cooper’s place in Waco, as the two were splitting time at left tackle early in the season. Glass then had to flip over to right tackle to fill in for an injured Jake Springfield, but Springfield returned against BYU this past weekend.

The Cowboys were struggling before the injury bug infested the team, but it certainly hasn’t made things any easier. The Cowboys are without Collin Oliver and Nick Martin, probably the two best defensive players on the team. Rucker (perhaps the third best defender on the team) missed the BYU game along with Smith, meaning a MASH unit took the field against the Cougars in Provo this past weekend.

Things have been a little less chaotic on the offensive end — that was until Rangel started against BYU which seemed to help the Cowboy offense before his second-quarter injury that will keep him out a while.