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Chase Young undergoes neck surgery after signing with the Saints

Chase Young underwent neck surgery after signing with the Saints. He isn’t expected to be ready for training camp:

This sure dampens the mood for New Orleans Saints fans. Their team’s shiny new free agent acquisition is going on the mend until July — if not longer. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that Chase Young underwent neck surgery after signing a one-year, fully-guaranteed $13 million contract with the team.

Schefter says that while Young is expected to return in time for the start of the regular season in September, recovery from this procedure will “sideline him into training camp.” So fans shouldn’t expect to even see Young on the practice field until August. Young played through the injury last season for two different teams but requires this now procedure in order to continue his career.

While Schefter says that teams were aware of this medical situation, and that “the Saints were comfortable moving ahead with it,” it’s very disappointing for a team with such a lengthy history of injuries at the defensive end position. Marcus Davenport and Payton Turner, both first-round draft picks, spent extensive time in trainer’s room early in their careers. Young is quite literally following in their footsteps. Hopefully everything will go as planned so that Young can hit the field in Week 1 and make a positive impact.

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Giants’ Daniel Jones says he’s still dealing with symptoms from neck injury

New York Giants QB Daniel Jones says he is still dealing with the symptoms from his neck injury but is doing everything he can to return.

New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones appeared on Up & Adams with Kay Adams on Tuesday, and the update provided on his neck injury wasn’t exactly optimistic.

“Still dealing with some of those symptoms from it,” Jones revealed.

“I’m not gonna get specifically into what exactly they are. But I’m trying hard to get back, still dealing with it a little bit, but trying to do everything I can to heal up and prove to the doctors and trainers that I’m ready to go.”

The Giants will return to practice on Wednesday, and given Jones’ commentary, it seems unlikely that he will take the field. It also leaves his availability for Sunday’s game against the Washington Commanders in doubt.

“I’m doing everything I can to get back. I hope I can play,” Jones said.

The fact that the Giants haven’t placed Jones on injured reserve is encouraging, but it’s clear this is a slow-healing injury.

Several online doctors have weighed in with their own personal speculation on the matter, and those takes have varied. Some have gone as far as to suggest this is a potentially career-threatening injury, but that does not appear to be the case. That seems more like engagement chasing.

Whatever the truth is, Jones isn’t saying.

“It’s tough not playing,” he said. “You want to be out there, with the team, with the guys, and help win. I thought we played well, played hard, just came up a little short there at the end. It was a tough way to finish. I thought we played well, I thought Tyrod (Taylor) certainly played well, too.”

It sounds like Jones may have to watch at least one more from the sideline before he returns to the field.

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Chiefs RB Derrick Gore questionable to return vs. Bears with neck injury

The #Chiefs have ruled RB Derrick Gore questionable to return vs. the #Bears with a neck injury.

The Kansas City Chiefs will be without one of their running backs for the fourth quarter of preseason Week 1 against the Chicago Bears.

The team has announced that RB Derrick Gore has suffered a neck injury and will be questionable to return to the game. Gore has struggled in this game so far with two carries for -2 yards. He’s also just 1-for-3 for six yards on the day on passes that have come his way. The injury occurred in the third quarter on a play when Gore was stuffed and fumbled the ball.

Frankly, outside of Clyde Edwards-Helaire and Isiah Pacheco, there hasn’t been much to get excited about in the running back room. Still, Gore is someone with some experience in the offense, who you don’t want to see injured during the course of the preseason. Tayon Fleet-Davis replaced Gore in the fourth quarter and seems to be who the team is rolling with for the time being.

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Why Seahawks RB Chris Carson won’t make formal retirement statement

Seahawks running back Chris Carson is expected to retire from the NFL due to a neck injury, but here’s why he won’t issue a formal statement.

Just minutes ago, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported that Seattle Seahawks running back Chris Carson would be retiring from the NFL due to a neck injury he sustained last season. However, Rapoport also revealed why Carson won’t be making an official statement just yet.

“Chris Carson won’t make a retirement statement, just in case his neck dramatically improves,” Rapoport explained. “But this is where it stands . . .  And the Seahawks, as they did with Cliff Avril, Kam Chancellor and others, make sure he gets his money. Thus, the official designation.”

Carson originally joined the Seahawks when he was selected in the seventh round of the 2017 NFL draft out of Oklahoma State and spent his entire career in Seattle. Carson appeared in just four games last year before his season-ending neck injury.

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Seahawks RB Chris Carson to miss 2nd game due to neck injury

Seattle Seahawks running back Chris Carson has been ruled out Week 6 and will miss his second straight game due to a neck injury.

Seattle Seahawks running back Chris Carson has officially been ruled out for Sunday night’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Coach Pete Carroll gave an update on Carson’s status following Friday’s walkthrough.

“He made a really good jump over the weekend and felt way better, but coming out of that, starting to go back to work with it, there’s not enough progress made,” Carroll told reporters. “So it’s better for us to get him back and make sure that we don’t rush it back. And so we’re going to just take this time—it is a delicate thing, he’s got something going on in his neck—so we got to make sure that we do it really well.

This week will mark the second straight game Carson will miss due to a neck injury.

“So we’re going to take care of him, it just seems like the right decision,” Carroll added. “The jump that he made was in his relief and he felt way better and all of that, but not ready to play it.”

The official Week 6 injury report can be found here.

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Report: Tyron Smith considering sitting out rest of Cowboys season

After missing 3 games a season for four years in a row, Smith may be about to miss a whole lot more with his neck issue.

The Dallas Cowboys keep receiving blow after blow when it comes to injury and the once-vaunted offensive line. Earlier in the day, head coach Mike McCarthy let on that left tackle Tyron Smith, back just one game after dealing with neck stingers, was not recovering well. The announcement clearly put Smith’s status for Week 5 against the New York Giants in deep jeopardy.

Now, it’s been revealed that much more than Sunday’s game is at risk. NFL Network’s Jane Slater and Mike Garafolo are stating that Smith is receiving second opinions about his neck and there is consideration of shutting him down for the remainder of the 2020 season. Already missing right tackle La’el Collins for the year after a hip injury, losing Smith would be a crushing blow.

Smith, a seven-time Pro Bowler and two-time First-Team All pro, has been a stalwart of the Cowboys offensive line since being drafted in 2011. After one season on the right side, he swapped with Doug Free and has been entrenched as the left tackle since 2012. The 6-foot-5, 320 pound star from USC has stood as the prototype for his position ever since, as his athleticism and power are everything a team would want in a blindside protector.

Injury has caught up with him over the last half decade, as a series of ailments have hindered him in several games while causing him to miss 3 contests each of the last four seasons.

The club has only used one draft pick on a tackle since bringing Smith aboard, the ill-fated selection of Chaz Green in 2015’s third round. Collins was acquired that draft season as well, but was a UDFA despite having first-round pedigree.

If Smith does rule himself out for the year, or even if he doesn’t, one would have to wonder if the front office would heavily consider investing in the position in the upcoming draft.

For now, the Cowboys would be left to decide what to do with the players they have on hand.

Dallas will have to man both positions with some combination of Brandon Knight (2019 UDFA), Terence Steele (2020 UDFA), Jordan Mills (midseason signing), William Sweet (signed off Browns practice squad this week) and Eric Smith (signed after Week 1). Cam Erving, signed in the offseason to be the swing tackle, lost that job to Steele going into the opener and has been out since spraining his MCL.

There’s rarely any solid options on the free agent market at that position during the season, so the Cowboys may have to get creative. They could potentially look for a trade, which is unlikely as teams tend to keep good tackles, or they could consider shuffling their offensive line.

Zack Martin, who played left tackle in college, kicked out when injuries took hold in Week 3 against Seattle. He could be asked to do so again. Connor Williams, left guard, also played tackle in college but he seems like more of a stretch considering his play inside hasn’t been stellar. Knight played fairly admirably in the two games Smith missed, but that brings Steele back into the equation at right tackle, and his performance has been underwhelming.

The Cowboys answer for what they do on Sunday may not end up being what they do if Smith misses extended time.

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Leighton Vander Esch undergoes offseason neck surgery

The Cowboys’ middle linebacker missed the stretch of the season due to nerve issues.

There has been a cloud of mystery around the neck injury suffered by middle linebacker Leighton Vander Esch. What is known is that he missed the final seven games of the regular season due to it. Along the way, the Cowboys brass brought the discussion of whether or not it was a career-ending type of injury to the public, by proclaiming it wasn’t but indicating it had been discussed.

From there, it was a bunch of positive-yet-open-ended talk, the type that was last seen when the organization was discussing the recovery of fellow linebacker Jaylon Smith during the first year of his career. Now, there seems to be more concrete evidence of the severity of Vander Esch’s nerve issue ailment. According to ESPN’s Todd Archer, the second-year pro underwent surgery and the public prognosis is that he’ll be able to take part in the club’s offseason activities.

That still, of course, is very open ended. Technically, offseason activities span from the post-draft workouts to OTAs and minicamps, which wrap up in early-to-mid June. That’s about five months of recovery time.

With Dallas though, we’ve seen those proclamations also stretch into the summer and into training camp. The important takeaway from this is that the rest that they’ve giving him since October has not resulted in an improvement and now the club is looking to surgery to help the recovery.

The Cowboys drafted Vander Esch in the first round of the 2018 draft and he turned in a stellar performance as a rookie, earning a Pro Bowl nod and being second-team All-Pro. The Boise State product earned a cult following after being selected out of Boise State and earned the nickname the Wolf Hunter for his standout play and then he adopted a wolf call as his celebration.

Those celebrations were few and far between in 2019, though, as he played in just nine games and registered just 72 tackles.

With Sean Lee’s return up in the air and Joe Thomas a free agent, the club has little proven talent on the depth chart outside of Smith. If the team can’t be sure of Vander Esch’s status until after free agency and the draft, the club is likely going to have to make a move to shore up the position.

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Defensive ends Jadeveon Clowney, Ziggy Ansah uncertain for Sunday

The Seattle Seahawks could be down a couple of defenders against the Cardinals if Jadeveon Clowney and Ziggy Ansah are unable to play.

The Seattle Seahawks could be down a couple of defensive ends Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals if Jadeveon Clowney and Ziggy Ansah are unable to return from injuries. Both players were inactive Week 15 against the Carolina Panthers.

Clowney has been battling a sports hernia (core) issue over the last few weeks of the season. Opting not to undergo surgery at this point, he’s been pushing through the pain. But last week, Clowney was also sidelined by the flu, unable to even travel with the team.

As for Ansah, he’s still been fighting a neck injury.

Coach Pete Caroll did say both defenders would get some practice in starting Wednesday, however.

“I can’t tell you, that I don’t know,” Carroll responded when asked if Clowney and Ansah would be ready to suit up Week 16. “We’ve got to get through the week and see what happens. They are both going to get work today and we’ll just see how we progress and see if it’s right for those guys to play.

“I’m hoping – we’d love to get get them both back, but I can’t tell you right now.”

Ansah and Clowney have a number of days to prove they are ready to roll before the final injury report of the week comes out on Friday.

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