Indiana’s 2017 football season got off to an awful start on Monday when the football program announced this morning that two seniors, linebacker T.J. Simmons and running back Camion Patrick have been granted medical hardships. The injuries mark the end of both Simmons and Patrick’s careers.
Simmons started all 12 games at inside linebacker as a freshman for the Hoosiers, and in his sophomore and junior seasons, blossomed into one of the defenses’s top playmakers. But he was redshirted in 2016 and relegated to some scout team roles throughout the year. Coach Tom Allen, through the team’s press release, stated that Simmons had worked hard to recover from a knee injury but could not heal well enough to perform consistently.