Thursday will mark the first time Texas will issue an in-season injury report, and coach Steve Sarkisian is anxious to get it out there.

It’s not because of what it will say. Quarterback Quinn Ewers is expected to be listed as questionable for Saturday’s game against Mississippi State, for example.

“I think it’s a good thing,” Sarkisian said. “So that everyone’s clear of why we do this report, it’s so that we can minimize the leaks and in our buildings from a gambling perspective, if everybody wants to know the truth.

“For everybody that's trying to figure out who's playing and who's not, and then everybody wants to call student trainers and student managers of who practiced, who didn’t, and all these things,” he added. “So at the end of the day, if that minimizes them having to talk to people, I’d just give the report.”

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To be clear, the SEC is only issuing injury reports for intraconference matchups. If an SEC team is playing someone from another conference, the league will not issue a report on behalf of the SEC team that’s playing.

“You know, it is what it is,” Sarkisian said. “I mean, that's why the NFL has done it.”

But what about coaches fudging on the report? Obviously, that’s been a long-time practice in the NFL, although there are rules and potential fines for being dishonest with the injury report. Teams are not allowed to disguise injured players who are healthy and vice versa.

Ewers himself is a good example. He may be listed as questionable on Thursday and then still play on Saturday. Questionable is essentially a 50-50 proposition. Doubtful would be more 25-75 to being out.

Teams should be penalized if they list a player as “out” on Thursday but then he plays in the game.

“For me, sure, you'll monitor it, but I’d love to say that everybody's just got this moral code, and they're going to exactly put down what's supposed to happen in the game,” Sarkisian said. “I’m not sure if everybody operates that way, right? I mean, it is football, so everybody's trying to look for an advantage somewhere in all this.

“I think you will monitor it, but I don't think we're just going to put all of our stock into what their injury report says.”