Alan Bowman suffered a partially collapsed lung in Texas Tech's loss on Saturday, but it could've been worse.
It's an injury head coach Kliff Kingsbury wasn't familiar with from his playing or coaching days, but he said it could've been worse. Bowman avoided a fracture, internal bleeding and broken ribs.
"He got hit just right. It was a clean solid hit by two guys at the same time," head coach Kliff Kingsbury said during his weekly Big 12 teleconference on Monday. "It's was about as clean as you could hope when talking about one of these injuries."
After suffering the injury, Bowman was taken to the hospital and has been there since.
"He's still under observation right now. We feel like he's going to be fine, I'm not sure of a timetable yet," Kingsbury said. "They feel like he should be released from the hospital soon."
Sophomore quarterback Jett Duffey replaced Bowman on Saturday against West Virginia and brought Texas Tech within one score of tying the game in the fourth quarter.
In the season opener against Ole Miss, junior quarterback McLane Carter suffered a high-ankle sprain and has since been replaced by Bowman.
Bowman will have more time to recover since the Red Raiders have a bye week before they return to the field to face TCU on Oct. 11.
"As those other two guys heal up over this next week, I'm hoping to have everybody available for our next game that next Thursday, but I'm not sure yet," Kingsbury said. "We'll kind of push those reps to the one guy that's healthy and go from there."
