ASU Football: Sun Devils overcoming injuries, showing improvement in depth

(Photo: Nicholas Badders/WCSN) “Next-man-up” can be an overused phrase, a fallback plan with a built-in excuse when misfortune strikes a football team. Every program in college football suffers injuries, an inevitable cost of doing business in a physical sport. Only a fraction of teams can sustain major absences; even fewer improve as top players