Sources: NC State QB Leary out vs. Syracuse

Star NC State backmost Devin Leary volition beryllium retired for the No. 15 Wolfpack's crippled astatine No. 18 Syracuse connected Saturday, sources told ESPN.

Leary, the ACC preseason subordinate of the year, injured his enarthrosis against Florida State past week. Coach Dave Doeren has acceptable a timetable wherever Leary's instrumentality could beryllium anyplace from a week to six weeks. For the archetypal week, Leary is not acceptable to return.

Leary, a fifth-year player, is 1 of the astir accomplished quarterbacks successful the sport. He has thrown for 6,807 yards and 62 touchdowns successful his career. He has thrown for 11 touchdowns and 4 interceptions this season.

NC State volition commencement Jack Chambers, a postgraduate transportation from Charleston Southern who arrived successful 2022 and has yet to commencement a crippled for the Wolfpack. Chambers did not implicit a walk successful alleviation against Florida State, but helium did pb the Wolfpack connected a brace of fourth-quarter tract extremity drives that allowed them to instrumentality the pb and triumph the game.

Chambers did flash a dual-threat capability, finishing the crippled with 39 rushing yards connected 7 attempts. He failed to implicit the lone walk helium threw. On the play for NC State, he's 6-for-14 for 48 yards and 1 touchdown. This volition beryllium his archetypal commencement for the Wolfpack.

At Charleston Southern, Chambers was second-team all-Big South and finished successful the Top 20 nationally successful the FCS with 63.3% completion rate.

Leary near the crippled aft taking a deed from 300-pound FSU antiaircraft lineman Joshua Farmer precocious successful the 3rd 4th of NC State's triumph implicit the Seminoles. Farmer was penalized for roughing the passer connected the play. Leary yet near the tract with the assistance of trainers and watched the last 4th with his close (throwing) limb successful a sling.

Leary gets a accidental to heal a spot acknowledgment to the schedule, arsenic NC State has a bye adjacent week earlier returning to enactment the pursuing Thursday nighttime against Virginia Tech. That's the archetypal of three-straight location games for NC State, arsenic Wake Forest visits the adjacent week and Boston College the week after.

Leary entered the play arsenic 1 of the astir intriguing players successful the sport, arsenic he'd thrown 35 touchdowns and conscionable 5 interceptions successful 2021. That earned him plentifulness of preseason assemblage hype and NFL intrigue, arsenic his limb spot was considered among the champion successful the athletics by NFL scouts.

Leary was truthful bullish connected the Wolfpack earlier the play that helium predicted this could beryllium 1 of the school's best-ever teams. "I deliberation it could beryllium the champion team," Leary told ESPN this summer, "to ever travel done NC State."

The Wolfpack (5-1) volition look a Syracuse (5-0) defence that's 1 of the astonishment units successful the country. The Orange are Top 10 nationally successful scoring defence (14.0 ppg) and full defence (271.6 ypg), arsenic coordinator Tony White's unorthodox 3-3-5 has fixed up much than 20 points lone erstwhile successful 5 games.

This is the archetypal clip 2 ranked teams are playing astatine Syracuse since 2001.