Green Bay Packers QB Jordan Love sustained a leg injury during the closing moments of Friday night’s loss to the Eagles. Coach Matt LaFleur had no update while online speculation varied.
In a case of adding injury to insult, Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love suffered a leg injury during the closing moments of the team’s 34-29 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Friday night.
The severity of the injury was unknown after the game. In his postgame radio interview with Larry McCarren, coach Matt LaFleur said: “I don’t know. We’re waiting. Obviously, very concerned about it. We’ll wait to find out when we do more tests.”
The fate of a season filled with Super Bowl aspirations will hinge on those tests.
Dr. David Chao, a former team physician for the Chargers and the man behind Sports Injury Central, thought Love had suffered a high-ankle sprain.
In an article on SIC, Chao via his video analysis thought the ankle injury is the “bigger deal” than a potential knee injury that happened simultaneously. He said there is “no worry” of a torn ACL.
“The injury appears less severe since it affects his front leg, which is not as crucial for pushing off as his back leg,” Chao wrote. “This detail could play an important role in determining his availability for future games.”
Other physicians making an online diagnosis, such as Dr. Jesse Morse, feared an ACL injury.
“If you slow it down, I believe you can see a pop or a shift (in Love’s knee),” Morse said. “At the minimum, this is an MCL sprain. My primary concern, unfortunately, is ACL.”
