GREEN BAY, Wis. — Green Bay Packers receiver Christian Watson sustained a season-ending torn ACL in Sunday’s loss to the Chicago Bears, coach Matt LaFleur stated Monday.
“Yeah, it isn’t good,” LaFleur stated. “He’ll be out for this season or the remainder of the yr.”
As for quarterbacks Jordan Love and Malik Willis, each of whom sustained accidents in Sunday’s sport, LaFleur wasn’t certain whether or not they can be restricted in apply this week. Love left the sport within the second quarter after touchdown on his proper elbow, which precipitated numbness in his throwing hand. Willis performed the remainder of the sport however banged his throwing hand on the helmet of a Bears participant on the second-to-last collection of the sport.
“I talked to each of these guys,” LaFleur stated. “They appear to be doing all proper, however so far as their limits, I feel they will be OK, however we’ll discover out over the subsequent two days.”
Watson was coming off a bruised left knee that pressured him to overlook the earlier week’s sport at Minnesota. It’s unclear whether or not that had any impression on the damage to his proper knee. The damage got here on a noncontact play wherein the ball went to Dontayvion Wicks throughout the sector. Watson wanted assist getting off the sector and was carted to the locker room.
“That’s a troublesome one,” Love stated Sunday. “Obviously, I’m unsure the precise circumstances, however simply seeing it on the sector, him happening noncontact like that, it is robust. It’s actually robust, particularly Christian making an attempt to bounce again from what he is been coping with and to have the ability to go on the market and have that occur, it is robust. I really feel for Christian.”
Watson, a third-year professional who performed in all however two video games this season, led the Packers with a 21.4-yard common per catch. He caught 29 passes for 620 yards and two touchdowns and was the workforce’s finest deep-threat receiver.
The timing of his damage not solely wiped him out of the playoffs, which the Packers start Sunday on the Philadelphia Eagles, but in addition means he is prone to miss a big portion of subsequent season, when he will likely be within the remaining yr of his rookie contract.
