Ohio State's Tate out for season, as floor slap apparently aggravates shoulder injury
Here's one instance where "insult to injury" applies fairly well.
Ohio State forward Jae'Sean Tate is out for the season, scheduled to undergo surgery on his left shoulder on Friday. But it's the way that he hurt the shoulder that's painful to watch.
And we don't mean painful in the Lawrence Taylor-Joe Theismann sense.
Tate was victimized on the kind of play that gets played and replayed and posted and forwarded. Late in the second half of Saturday's bout in Lincoln, Neb., while matched up with Nebraska's Tai Webster, Tate got down in a defensive stance and pounded the floor. While Tate was pounding, Webster took off and drove past him into the lane (see above video).
Bad enough, but Tate apparently aggravated a shoulder injury he suffered in the first half, the Columbus Dispatch reported. In fact, Tate may have been dealing with a shoulder issue for a while, possibly connected to a torn labrum he suffered in high school.
Tate briefly left the game, then returned and played through overtime.
