Through four weeks of the 2022 season, Houston defensive end Derek Parish had been lighting up backfields to an unfathomable degree. However, the star pass rusher’s promising season officially concluded in the first half of the Cougars’ 34-27 victory over Rice last Saturday as he suffered a season-ending torn bicep.
Houston head coach Dana Holgorsen confirmed the news in his weekly Monday press conference. Parish will have surgery on his bicep this week.
“It makes me sick with the kind of year that he was having,” Holgorsen said. “Team captain. Just plays his tail off. Hadn’t been hurt since his freshman year in high school.