With the start of fall camp about a month away, Southern Miss football coach Jay Hopson is encouraged by quick recoveries by a pair of key players on offense.
Redshirt senior quarterback Kwadra Griggs of Greenwood and redshirt freshman running back Darius Maberry are on track to be ready for the start of fall camp.
Griggs sat out spring practice after having foot surgery.
The 6-foot-3, 225-pound Greenwood High School product completed 55.8 percent of his passes for 1,879 yards, 16 touchdowns and two interceptions in 10 games last year.
“He’s looking good right now,” Hopson said. “I’d say he’s ahead of schedule. I anticipate him being full go.
“He had some discomfort in the back of his heel so they did some touch-up surgery. He could have actually probably played without surgery, but we wanted to make sure he was 100 percent.”
In his absence, junior Keon Howard and redshirt sophomore Jack Abraham saw the majority of snaps in the spring. Howard had a strong spring game and appeared to have the edge on Abraham entering the summer.
