Justin Sorensen recovering from mission injury

BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall said this morning that placekicker Justin Sorensen, who played for the Cougars last year before departing on a mission to Georgia, has been back in Utah due to an injury.

“I’ll tell you what I know,” Mendenhall said. “He was on his mission and he was talking to someone who was investigating the church on the street. He stepped back off of a curb and twisted his ankle, an ankle that he had hurt previously. I guess it was pretty severe damage. It wasn’t something the surgeons felt comfortable doing out there, knowing he was a kicker and performing at a Division I level. He returned home to get surgery and is still — and can’t say for sure if he’s here still here, I think he is — rehabbing in the MTC, then he’ll go back out as soon as there’s a certain threshold met where it’s good enough where he can do whatever he needs to do on his own.”