Ole Miss OL Christian Morris tweets career is over

OXFORD - Ole Miss offensive tackle Christian Morris tweeted Saturday that his football career is over following a spinal cord injury suffered two weeks ago.

The sophomore was blocking on a field goal attempt as the first half of the Rebels’ game against Texas A&M expired on Oct. 24. He was tended to for several moments before being carted off.

The team reported he had suffered a herniated disc but coach Hugh Freeze later said it was a spinal cord contusion, or bruising of the bone.

Morris signed with UCLA as a member of the 2013 recruiting class out of Memphis East but didn’t enroll. He enrolled at Ole Miss in January 2014 and played three games off the bench despite tearing an Achilles’ tendon during spring workouts earlier that year.

The sophomore participated in five games this season, struggling to receive consistent playing time after being a four-star recruit and No. 20 offensive tackle in the 2013 class.

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