The New 12 months’s Day soccer sport was reduce brief for Philadelphia Eagles defensive finish Josh Sweat.
Throughout the Eagles’ face-off in opposition to their rivals, the New Orleans Saints, the skilled athlete was carted off the sector and brought to a close-by hospital after receiving a neck harm throughout a collision within the first quarter.
“Eagles DE Josh Sweat has been transported to an area hospital with a neck harm for precautionary causes,” the Philadelphia Eagles said in a Twitter statement on Jan. 1. “He has motion in all extremities.”
In response to NBC Sports activities, after Sweat tackled Saints fullback, Adam Prentice, headfirst on the finish of a third-down conversion, he did not rise up from the bottom. Medical personnel then attended to Sweat following the collision and stayed on the sector for a number of minutes earlier than transferring him onto a stretcher and lifting him off the sector.
ESPN reported that the Eagles staff rushed by the 25-year-old’s aspect to indicate their assist for him.