09.05.08 BEANIE WELLS WILL SIT THIS WEEK

Regardless of how you feel about Ohio State, there was little arguement that the biggest “Your Team Just Took One In The Ass” moment from college football last week was the injury to Buckeyes tailback Chris “Beanie” Wells. Wells was considered by many to be the frontrunner in this year’s Heisman Trophy race, and it looks like Coach Tressel won’t play him in tomorrow’s game against Ohio University. From Y! Sports:

“Beanie won’t go this week,” Tressel said Thursday afternoon. “I feel good about his progress, but it wasn’t enough progress to practice through yesterday.”

Asked if he worries that Wells may not be available when the Buckeyes play at No. 1 Southern California on Sept. 13, Tressel added: “No, not at all. Not at all. But that’s easy to say today.”

Ohio State has not allowed him to speak with reporters since he was injured, although he was quoted as saying by a team spokesman that he was relieved that X-rays had not shown any broken bones.

Everyone and their mother knew it was either muscle or ligament damage as soon as it happened, so the negative X-ray is just a tick on a dog’s ass, really. There’s no reason to play him this week; he’ll need to be healthy for Ohio State to compete against Southern Cal next week. Wells is a lot like a panda, except that he’s not Chinese and doesn’t eat bamboo. Nor does he enjoy any federal protection from being driven into extinction. But other than that, Beanie might as well be American for “panda.”