Tulane rallied past Army on Saturday despite not having senior linebacker Sam Howard , who sat out with a leg injury.

Coach Jon Sumrall said Howard injured his leg in the fourth quarter on Oct. 9 against East Carolina but played through the pain. No one realized its severity until the Green Wave began practicing for the Black Knights.

“Even the next morning we thought it was a little ankle tweak,” Sumrall said. “It was a little more significant than we thought. It’s a (non-weight)-bearing bone is his lower leg, his fibula, a hairline fracture-type deal.”

Howard, Tulane’s leading returning tackler from 2024, was fourth on the team with 31 stops through six games. He joined Dickson Agu , who had a team-best 36 tackles in five games before sufferubg a season-ending ACL tear against

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