Skai Moore Injury: Updates on South Carolina LB's Neck and Recovery

A new era for South Carolina football is off to an inauspicious start, as star linebacker Skai Moore is out for the 2016 season because of a neck injury.

Continue for updates. 

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Moore Announces Successful Surgery

Friday, June 3

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Moore to Redshirt in 2016

Tuesday, May 31

South Carolina head coach Will Muschamp announced that Moore will be redshirting this year as a result of his neck issues, per Matt Baker of the Tampa Bay Times.

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Gamecocks Lose Defensive Leader in Moore

Losing Moore is a huge blow for a South Carolina team that finished last year 3-9 and 71st in points allowed, per Sports-Reference.com.

Moore was one of the few bright spots Muschamp had to build around in his first season as South Carolina's head coach.

A member of the 2013 SEC All-Freshman Team and a second-team All-SEC player in 2015, Moore has led the Gamecocks in total tackles in each of his three seasons and set a career high last year with 6.5 tackles for loss. 

Muschamp has a strong defensive pedigree, notably from his time as a defensive coordinator at LSU (2002-04) and Texas (2008-10), but losing his best and most versatile defender before the season even starts puts a mountain of pressure on the rest of the unit to perform and avoid another nine-loss year.