Coach Dave Canales said Saturday they initially thought it was a heat-related issue.
HOUSTON β Carolina rookie outside linebacker Nic Scourton is expected to miss some time after he sustained a collapsed lung during a joint practice with the Houston Texans this week.
Coach Dave Canales said Saturday that they first believed it was a heat-related issue on Thursday, but when he wasnβt getting better they checked him into a hospital to be evaluated.
βIt was a very physical play,β Canales said. βIt was presenting like heat exhaustion because he was having trouble breathing, getting tired and all that. We kind of cooled him down. We couldnβt get him to respond good enough to where we felt comfortable about putting him back into practice β¦ then, the symptoms kind of grew after practice, so we checked him into the hospital and thatβs where they told us what was happening and the symptoms all say this is what it was.β
The second-round pick from Texas A&M was driving back to Charlotte instead of flying with the team as a precaution.
βWhen you have that type of a chest injury, the cabin pressure, the elevation and all that can present issues,β Canales said. βThe best course of action was to get him in a car, drive him back to Charlotte and continue his treatment there.β
Canales said he wasnβt sure how long this would keep Scourton off the field.
βHe will be back in Charlotte, and we will keep evaluating him,β he said. βI donβt really know a timeline. Itβs really week-to-week with those types of things. Iβve heard from the trainers and from different coaches who have been around this where a guy played the next week. We have to be smart with that one, and Iβll let you know where weβre at when we get back to Charlotte.β
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