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When Trevor Lawrence was injured and in pain during the Jacksonville Jaguars’ loss to the Cincinnati Bengals on Monday, the quarterback awkwardly limped off the field and all the way back to the team’s locker room without a cart.
However, Lawrence said he decided to walk back and not use a cart, putting down the notion that Jaguars weren’t prepared or equipped with a medical cart.
“We have an amazing medical staff that takes care of us in every way that you can imagine. Anything that we need, they’re always there,” Lawrence told reporters on Wednesday. They work pretty much around the clock to take care of us. We got one of the best, if not the best, in the league.
“So, I’ve heard what [people have been saying] and all the stuff that’s been going on. Yeah, we talked about getting a cart, and I was gonna get a cart. Then, I’m standing there, I’m already at the sideline at that point and the tunnel’s right there. I just wanted to get off the field and get out of there. I didn’t know what was going on with my ankle and I felt like I could get off [the field]. I was like, ‘Hey, you’re good. Just don’t bring it out, I’m going in.'”
Lawrence came to regret that decision, though.
“Once I got in there, I was like, ‘This is a pretty long walk,”” Lawrence said with a laugh. “But I was already there, and they asked again if I wanted a cart. I was like, ‘No, we’re going to make it the whole way there.’ I didn’t know there were cameras in the tunnel. So, that’s kind of — they’re everywhere.
“Of course, we have carts. We have everything we need. I was the one that didn’t choose to take one. So, let’s put that on me. Maybe that was dumb. Maybe I should’ve taken one, whatever. But it’s nothing to do with us not having a cart available. I don’t think that would happen in the National Football League, especially here with the crew that we have.”
Lawrence was later diagnosed with a right high-ankle sprain, which caused him to miss the remainder of Monday’s loss. But the…
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Publish date : 2023-12-06 21:40:16
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