Wisconsin quarterback Billy Edwards Jr. is considered week to week with a sprained knee after undergoing an MRI following his early departure from the Badgers' season opener, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Friday.
The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the school hasn’t announced an update regarding the condition of Edwards, who exited in the second quarter of Wisconsin’s 17-0 victory over Miami (Ohio) on Thursday.
ESPN first reported the update on Edwards’ injury.
The news of a sprain indicates Wisconsin avoided the worst-case scenario that occurred last year, when starting quarterback Tyler Van Dyke tore his anterior cruciate ligament in the Badgers' third game and was unavailable the rest of the season.
Edwards started to limp after executing a handoff early in the second quarter. He went into the injury tent, eventually headed into the locker room and watched the second half of the game from the sideline while wearing sweats.
He went 6 of 13 for 68 yards in his Wisconsin debut. Wisconsin led 3-0 when Edwards got hurt.
Wisconsin (1-0) hosts Middle Tennessee on Sept. 6 before visiting No. 8 Alabama on Sept. 13. The Badgers open their Big Ten schedule Sept. 20 when they host Maryland, Edwards’ former school.
Edwards completed 65% of his passes for 2,881 yards with 15 touchdowns and nine interceptions last year as the starting quarterback for a Maryland team that went 4-8.
Danny O’Neil took over for Edwards on Thursday and went 12 of 19 for 120 yards with a touchdown and an interception. He also rushed for 13 yards and a touchdown on 11 carries.
O’Neil completed 63.3% of his passes for 2,181 yards with 12 touchdowns and six interceptions at San Diego State last season. He started 11 games for the Aztecs, who went 3-9.
Wisconsin has grown accustomed to dealing with quarterback injuries. Tanner Mordecai missed 3 ½ games with a broken hand in 2023, in addition to Van Dyke's injury last year.
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FILE - Billy Edwards Jr. throws a pass at a Wisconsin spring football practice Saturday, April 5, 2025, in Madison, Wis. (Owen Ziliak/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)
CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss police said Monday they've identified all the people who were injured in the fire that tore through a New Year's celebration in a crowded bar. They put the total at 116, more than two-thirds still in hospitals.
Authorities had previously given a figure of 119 injured, on top of the 40 people killed. But police said Monday that three people admitted to hospitals on the night of the disaster in Crans-Montana had been linked in error to the blaze at the crowded Le Constellation bar.
The injured include 68 Swiss citizens, 21 French nationals, 10 Italians, four Serbs, two Poles and one person each from Australia, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Portugal and the Republic of Congo, according to a police statement. There were also four dual nationals: of France and Finland, France and Italy, Switzerland and Belgium, and Italy and the Philippines.
Police said 83 of the injured were still in hospitals. They didn't give further details or specify their ages.
The severity of burns made it difficult to identify some victims of the fire that broke out at about 1:30 a.m. on New Year's Day, requiring families to supply authorities with DNA samples.
Authorities announced on Sunday evening that they had completed the identification of the 40 people who died, the youngest of them aged 14.
On Monday, Italian authorities flew home the bodies of five victims from the airport in Sion, the regional capital.
Officials stood quietly as Swiss police pallbearers carried the coffins through a line of firefighters and soldiers to an Italian Air Force C-130 cargo plane. Mourners hugged before relatives boarded the aircraft.
Investigators have said they believe festive sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited the fire when they came too close to the ceiling.
Swiss authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the bar managers. The two are suspected of involuntary homicide, involuntary bodily harm and involuntarily causing a fire, according to the Valais region's chief prosecutor.
Police officers carry a coffin with a body of one of six Italians at the Military Airport in Sion, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, following a devastating fire left dead and injured in a bar in Crans-Montana during the New Year's celebrations. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
Police officers carry a coffin with a body of one of six Italians at the Military Airport in Sion, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, following a devastating fire left dead and injured in a bar in Crans-Montana during the New Year's celebrations. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
Police officers carry a coffin with a body of one of six Italians at the Military Airport in Sion, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, following a devastating fire left dead and injured in a bar in Crans-Montana during the New Year's celebrations. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
People gather during a memorial procession in Crans-Montana, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, after a devastating fire in Le Constellation bar left dead and injured during the New Year's celebrations. (AP Photo/ Antonio Calanni)
