Terrel Hunt has a fractured fibula. Austin Wilson had a “pretty good headache” after leaving Syracuse’s 38-20 loss to then-No. 1 Florida State and officially has an upper-body injury now, SU head coach Scott Shafer said.

That leaves true freshman AJ Long to make his first start when the Orange plays Wake Forest at noon on Saturday and sophomore Mitch Kimble to back him up. And in his Thursday morning press conference Shafer said that while Syracuse has practiced for an emergency third-quarterback situation, he couldn’t say what the team’s plan is should SU need to use its fourth quarterback of the season.

“Yeah we’ve done some things there. Hopefully we never get to it. I wouldn’t want to say what we’re doing exactly going into it, so at least there could be an element of surprise,” he said, laughing. “But we’ve done some things. We’ve been creative.”

Punter Riley Dixon threw what proved to be the game-winning touchdown on a fake field goal in the Orange’s season-opening 27-26 double-overtime win against Villanova. Dixon also played some quarterback at nearby Christian Brothers (New York) Academy until about 11th grade.
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