UCLA’s Thompson-Robinson, Marrazzo injured against Stanford

UCLA backmost Dorian Thompson-Robinson did a small spot of everything to assistance guarantee the Bruins’ archetypal roadworthy travel of the play would beryllium a palmy one.

Thompson-Robinson accounted for 4 touchdowns, including 2 passing and 2 rushing, successful the 35-24 triumph implicit Stanford to unfastened Pac-12 Conference play. The triumph helped determination the Bruins (3-1) up 4 spots connected the Associated Press Top 25 and coaches canvass to No. 20.

He completed 18 of 29 passes for 251 yards and rushed for 30 yards, but the astir awesome portion of Thompson-Robinson’s show cannot beryllium recorded connected a stat sheet.

The elder backmost has shown signs of toughness, playing done an evident enarthrosis wounded successful the 2nd half.

“He took a mates hits and it was large to spot him spell successful and (have that) ‘I’m going to triumph this crippled for us’ (mentality),” antiaircraft backmost Qwuantrezz Knight said. “I deliberation helium went down 1 play and came backmost successful and threw a touchdown. I told him, ‘That’s what we request from you.’”

Thompson-Robinson was tackled out-of-bounds by Stanford information Alaka’i Gilman connected a 3-yard tally connected first-and-goal successful the 4th quarter. The backmost was dilatory to get backmost up and headed for the sideline portion backup backmost Ethan Garbers entered the game.

After a 2-yard tally by Garbers, Thompson-Robinson returned to the crippled and completed a 5-yard touchdown walk to receiver Kyle Philips to widen the pb to 35-24 and enactment the crippled retired of reach. Phillips had 5 catches for 120 receiving yards, his 2nd consecutive show with astatine slightest 5 catches and 100 yards.

“Over clip helium was taking hits and it was wearing connected him,” Philips said astir Thompson-Robinson. “He’s a pugnacious feline and that’ll ne'er clasp him down.”

Thompson-Robinson was not made disposable to talk with the media aft the crippled and the severity of his wounded wasn’t disclosed.

He did nonstop retired the pursuing tweet aft the game: “GOD is good! and truthful is this TEAM! #GoBruins”

Center Sam Marrazzo made his 2nd consecutive commencement for the Bruins but went down 3 plays into the 2nd half. Marrazzo was looked astatine by the grooming unit connected the tract earlier getting up and jogging disconnected the tract nether his ain power.

Marrazzo made his archetypal commencement of the play against Fresno State, aft missing the archetypal 2 games of the season. Marrazzo started each 7 games successful 2020 but near the play finale, a treble overtime nonaccomplishment to Stanford owed to an injury.

“It was a grind,” Marrazzo said past week astir his rehab and missing an aboriginal portion of the season. “I deliberation it gave maine a deeper appreciation for the discourtesy arsenic a full and an knowing of extracurricular the container stuff.”

Duke Clemens took implicit astatine halfway successful spot of Marrazzo to decorativeness retired the Stanford game. Jon Gaines II started astatine halfway for the Bruins’ archetypal 2 games but has since moved backmost to close defender upon Marrazzo’s return.

There whitethorn beryllium a amended denotation connected the severity of those injuries erstwhile the Bruins instrumentality to signifier connected Monday morning.

The Bruins had 2 cardinal members of the defence injured successful the Fresno State crippled and were questionable passim the past week.

Defensive lineman Otito Ogbonnia and information Quentin Lake were constricted participants passim signifier aboriginal past week.

Ogbonnia startedthe Stanford and played passim astir of the game. Lake went passim pregame lukewarm ups up of the Stanford crippled but did not play.

Kenny Churchwell III replaced Lake successful the starting lineup. He recorded conscionable 1 tackle.

The Bruins (3-1) volition big Pac-12 South rival Arizona State (3-1) astatine the Rose Bowl connected Oct. 2 astatine 7:30 p.m.