Surgery means Sweed’s career at Texas is probably over

Texas senior wide receiver Limas Sweed, whose 20 career touchdown catches rank No. 2 in school history, will undergo wrist surgery that is expected to end his college career, the team announced Monday.

Sweed will have surgery to repair ligament damage, trainer Kenny Boyd said. He first injured the wrist before the season but came back to play in the No. 23 Longhorns’ first six games. He had only two catches in Saturday’s 28-21 loss to Oklahoma and was taken out late in the game.

“I knew it was an injury I would be dealing with going into the season and I did everything I could to play through the pain and help the team,” Sweed said.

“I’ve aggravated it a couple of times and again last week and have probably been in more pain than I let anybody know,” he added.

Losing Sweed is a blow to a Longhorns team trying to end a four-game Big 12 losing streak that dates to last season. Texas (4-2, 0-2) plays at Iowa State (1-5, 0-2) on Saturday.

Wisconsin wide receiver Luke Swan will sit out the rest of the season because of a torn hamstring and is scheduled for surgery Wednesday.

The fifth-year senior had two touchdown receptions this season for the No. 19 Badgers and was averaging 18 yards a catch. He was hurt near the end of Saturday’s game against Illinois, landing awkwardly following a 17-yard reception.

In six games this season, Swan had 25 catches for 451 yards.