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Penn State dealing with multiple injuries heading into final nonconference game

Published Sep. 28, 2015 10:30 a.m. ET

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Penn State football coach James Franklin does not discuss injuries very much unless they are season-ending, but it was plain to see for reporters covering the Nittany Lions'  win over San Diego State on Saturday that Franklin's team is banged up. 

And as he opened his post-game press conference Saturday at Beaver Stadium, Franklin even acknowledged his team was affected. 

"We were inconsistent," Franklin said. "The fact that we lost Akeel Lynch, Saquon Barkley, Marcus Allen, and Evan Schwan during the game and didn’t have Jordan Lucas, Nyeem Wartman-White and Andrew Nelson available to us. (That) hurt our game but we grinded through it." 

Of that group, only Wartman-White, a junior linebacker, is known to be out for the season. He went down in the opener against Temple with a knee injury. 

StateCollege.com reports Allen left the game and was later seen on the sidelines with his right arm in a sling. Fellow starting safety Lucas missed the game with an apparent shoulder injury suffered one week earlier in a rout of Rutgers. 

Lynch (knee) and Barkley (ankle) are both running backs who ran wild against the Scarlet Knights but were hurt against the Aztecs and did not return. 

Nelson, an offensive tackle, has been out the last two games with a knee injury, but a timetable for his return is unclear. 

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