During Bobby Petrino’s Monday afternoon that he’s “not real encouraged” by Quick’s injury, but that it is a severely sprained ankle and not an achilles or knee injury as some feared. He had to be carted off the field.

Petrino was unsure how long Quick will be out.

Quick was Louisville’s leading returning receiver after catching 36 passes for 566 yards and three touchdowns in 2014.

While the Cardinals lost a main receiver, they did gain a starting quarterback. However they were good enough to convince Bobby Petrino, that Jackson is the quarterback going forward. Freshman Jaylen Smith started in his place and is listed as the starter on the depth chart that was released to the media. Jackson’s pass was picked off by Auburn’s Tray Matthews, and Bonnafon played into the second quarter before Jackson took over as quarterback for the remainder of the game.

Lamar Jackson’s stats were not the greatest in Saturday’s 31-24 loss at Auburn, 9 of 20 for 100 yards with an interception, although he also ran for 106 yards and scored a touchdown.

“He really gave us a lift”, Petrino said.

Smith said he considers Jackson the “most excited quarterback in college football right now”, and said he can throw the ball “85 yards easy”.

Graham Watson is the editor of Dr. Saturday on Yahoo Sports.