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The season hasn’t even started and already Washington State is plagued by injuries.
Linebacker Tupo Tuupo, a projected starter at middle linebacker, will miss the next eight weeks because of a shoulder injury, the team said.
A magnetic resonance image showed the left shoulder blade Tuupo injured in the first fall scrimmage Aug. 17 was broken, said Mark Smaha, director of athletic medicine.
He said X-rays taken immediately after the injury did not reveal the fracture.
The injury is unusual, and Smaha said he has seen only three of them in the past 30 years.
Tuupo is a 6-foot-2, 244-pound redshirt freshman. Raonall Smith, another redshirt freshman, is expected to start in his place.
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