Ben Boulware shared some insight into his ailing shoulder.

The junior linebacker told reporters in the wee hours of the morning on Sunday that nothing’s broken and there’s no ligament damage, but he characterized it as a “bad stinger.”

“Personally, my shoulder is killing me,” he said, “I’ve been playing with one arm the last two games.”

Boulware suffered the injury when he was crushed by a heavy block in the Wake Forest game.

“The way he hit me, the lineman from Wake Forest just hit the crap out me.  He kind of blindsided me. He hit me right on top of the shoulder,” he said. “It’s not really my AC joint. It’s the side and my collarbone. There’s not really a diagnosis. It just hurts. It sucks.”

During practice for the last couple of weeks, Boulware has been in a non-contact green jersey. On game days, he wears a sling and doesn’t have full range of motion.

“I honestly have no strength at all in it,” he said.

A significant break between games will do wonders for his recovery.

“If I can have two weeks, I can probably get back to where I was,” Boulware said. “I get to, like, 75 percent, then I hurt it again during the game. This next month is going to be big.”

He won’t be the only beneficiary.

“I think everybody is kind of worn out. Everybody’s bodies are hurting. This break is going to be so big for us,” Boulware said.