Kyle’s update, 1:13 PM PT: Per Adam Schefter, Mitchell is expected to miss two months with a sprained MCL. That would suggest Mitchell has a Grade 3 sprain. I know some feel like the team should have kept Trey Sermon, and that predicting Mitchell’s injury was obvious, but those two are not mutually exclusive.
The running game impressed during Week 1, carrying the ball 33 times for 176 yards, averaging 5.3 yards per carry. Before he went down with an injury, Elijah Mitchell played about as well as you could ask. The second-year runner had six attempts for 41 yards, with two of those going for more than ten yards and one going over 15.