Syracuse wide receiver Keenan Hale will undergo surgery for a lower-body injury and miss the 2013 season, SU Athletics announced in a release on Friday.

The 6-foot-2, 290-pound junior from Georgia didn’t play in any games last season, but with the graduations of Marcus Sales and Alec Lemon, there was a chance Hale could be called upon to help fill the Orange’s void at wide receiver.

The injury leaves Syracuse with eight wide receivers on the roster heading into Saturday’s Spring Game. The Orange also lost Kyle Foster earlier in the spring after he left the team. Quinta Funderburk, Jeremiah Kobena and Jarrod West have gotten most of the reps with the first team in the spring.