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Colorado's Shedeur Sanders ruled out vs. Utah

Buffaloes QB will miss the season finale in Salt Lake City after being held out of practice all week

Josh Tolle

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Shedeur Sanders won't play in Colorado's season finale at Utah on Saturday. The Colorado Buffaloes quarterback was dealing with a reported ankle injury and didn't practice all week. His status was a game day decision after leaving last week's game against Washington State.

Sanders took a hit on a strip sack against the Cougars and went to the locker room. He was replaced on the following series by backup QB Ryan Staub, who will get the start in Salt Lake City. The 6-1, 190-pound quarterback from Stevenson Ranch, CA will try to guide the Buffs to victory on the road against the Utes fifth-stringer Luke Bottari, who has never taken an FBS snap.

Coach Prime's youngest son will try again next season. He currently holds the CU record with 3,230 passing yards this season and the second-best mark with 27 TDs. Sanders was FBS' most accurate passer with 400+ attempts going into this weekend.

Colorado faces Utah at Rice-Eccles Stadium on Saturday at 3 p.m. ET on the Pac-12 Network. 

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Josh Tolle
JOSH TOLLE

Josh Tolle is a writer covering college sports for On SI. Outside of storytelling, the multi-talented broadcaster has play-by-play experience at the professional and collegiate levels. In 2018, he began calling games for the National Women’s Soccer League. He has also called games for the United Soccer League, Concacaf, and the U.S. Open Cup. He has called hockey for the Premier Hockey Federation for the past three seasons and was the play-by-play voice for the Superior RoughRiders of the Western Hockey League. He has provided play-by-play for various other sports including football, basketball, baseball and volleyball events. Since 2015, Tolle has been the voice of Colorado School of Mines Athletics having called football, men's and women's basketball and soccer. He previously wrote for SB Nation.

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