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Injury-plagued Texas LB room lacking depth ahead of 2018 season

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If the 2018 college football season were to begin today, the Texas Longhorns would hardly have enough healthy scholarship linebackers to construct a complete two-deep.

Last week, Texas announced that junior Jeffery McCulloch would miss several weeks with a strained pectoral muscle, which prompted true freshman safety DeMarvion Overshown’s move to linebacker. Just days later, though, Overshown, who was lining up as the second-team Rover behind Gary Johnson, went down with a knee injury during the Longhorns first scrimmage of fall practice, as did fellow freshman and second-team Mac linebacker Ayodele Adeoye.