Missouri football player Harold Brantley has been released from University Hospital following a car accident in which he suffered a broken leg, knee ligament damage and fractured ribs. The Tigers' top returning defensive lineman will spend a few days at a transitional facility before going home at the end of the week, according to the Columbia Daily Tribune.
"Harold is making great progress and is no longer at University Hospital," MU spokesman Chad Moller told the publication via text message.
Brantley was in a one-car accident on Father's Day with Tigers women's basketball player Maddie Stock as a passenger. He already has undergone surgery for a fractured tibia, with knee surgery still to come.
Whether and when Brantley will resume his playing career with Missouri remains unclear.
He and Stock were in Brantley's 2000 Chrysler Concorde on U.S. 63 south of Columbia, Mo., when the vehicle struck a guard rail and overturned. Stock suffered minor injuries. Neither were wearing seat belts, according to the report.
Brantley (6-foot-3, 280 pounds) made 54 stops for Missouri's SEC East title team last season, with five sacks.
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