Colorado injury news: CSU player who made bold claim about Colorado football in 2023 a game-time decision

CSU WR Tory Horton, who recently made headlines for claiming in August that the Rams should've murdered Deion Sanders' Colorado football program when the two teams played in 2023, is a game-time decision for the 2024 Rocky Mountain Showdown.

ESPN's Pete Thamel announced it in the morning on September 14.

"Colorado State star WR Tory Horton is a game-time decision against Colorado," Thamel wrote. "He returned to practice on Friday and is expected to attempt to play. He caught 16 passes for 133 yards and also threw for a touchdown pass against Colorado last year."

Is Horton hedging if he has a quiet game considering he may get extra attention from his comments? That's one thought. Horton did share some pretty tall talk about last year's 43-35 double-overtime matchup to build hype for the rematch.

“We owe them one," Horton said of Colorado. "And that’s something that’s been sitting on everybody’s mind since we came back from break… we should have murdered them guys.”

Deion Sanders addressed Tory Horton's derogatory comments about Colorado football

Sanders heard Horton and Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi's words and responded, though he didn't engage in a firefight.

“It makes it personal again," Sanders said of Rams quarterback Brayden Fowler and wide receiver Tory Horton claiming CU was playing for clicks and should've been "murdered" by CSU in 2023 (h/t On3). "It makes you think like, ‘Oh, OK.’ Because you analyze it as an adult. Kids don’t. They just get mad. You analyze it as an adult and you say, ‘OK, I see why you said that.’ And you know what’s behind it. But you try to understand that those are kids. Don’t do it.

“You want to do it. … So I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to take that bait. That’s too easy.”

Colorado and CSU play at 5:30 MT from Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium.