Texas Tech football injury update: Starting left guard Vinny Sciury out for the season

As if Saturday night's 37-16 loss at Washington State wasn't bad enough, the hits just keep on coming for the Texas Tech football team. That's because left guard Vinny Sciury, who left Saturday's game on a cart, has been ruled out for the rest of the season due to a knee injury.

The news was made known Monday when Texas Tech released its official injury report for week three. This is a significant loss for a team that already had massive issues along the offensive line.

Sciury was arguably the best Red Raider O-lineman. The senior transfer from Toledo has played in 41 college games thus far, including 35 consecutive starts between Toledo and Texas Tech.

Now, the Red Raiders will have to shuffle the offensive line again. On the week-one depth chart, Dylan Shaw and Holton Hendrix were listed as options behind Sciury.

Neither is an ideal replacement. Shaw is just a redshirt freshman who did not play in any games last season. What's more, he's yet to take any snaps of note this year.

As for Hendrix, he is just a true freshman from Lubbock's Cooper High School. In the class of 2024, he was rated as just a 3-star prospect and the No. 715 player in the country.

Neither of those freshmen seems ready to be a starter in the Big 12. Thus, Tech will likely slide either Caleb Rogers (who has started two games this year at right tackle) or Davion Carter (who has also started at right guard this year) over to left guard.

It might make the most sense to ask Carter to move to the left side of the line. He's been touted as a versatile and intelligent player so he might be best suited to take Sciury's place.

As for Rogers, he trained at both tackle and guard this offseason. However, the coaching staff has said that the senior feels more at home on the right side of the line.

This is just speculation about what the plan might be moving forward and perhaps head coach Joey McGuire will touch on that in his weekly press conference. However, there is no denying that this injury will take its toll on the Red Raiders.

This is the third Red Raider to be ruled out for the season. Already, edge rushers Dylan Shaw and Joseph Adedire have been lost for the entirety of 2024.

What's more, nine Red Raiders are listed as "questionable" to play versus North Texas. That list includes RB Tahj Brooks, DBs Maurion Horn, Brenden Jordan, C.J. Baskerville, and Bralyn Lux, OL Sterling Porcher, and LBs Harvey Dyson III and John Curry.

That's not the news Texas Tech fans wanted to receive on a Monday following such a disheartening loss. Unfortunately, though, that's the reality that McGuire and Co. now face as they prepare to host North Texas on Saturday.