Minnesota
Vikings’ Cine carted off after gruesome leg injury
Minnesota Vikings rookie security Lewis Cine suffered a ugly left leg harm within the first quarter of Sunday’s sport in opposition to the New Orleans Saints at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Cine was taken off the sector on a cart, rapidly dominated out for the remainder of the sport and transported to a hospital for additional analysis, based on the NFL Community telecast.
The Vikings’ first-round choice on this 12 months’s draft, Cine was slowed throughout coaching camp and early this season by a knee harm and had been restricted to particular groups up to now.
Cine suffered the harm whereas overlaying a punt with 1:08 remaining within the first quarter Sunday. Replays on the stadium confirmed Cine’s leg bending unnaturally. Vikings medical officers rapidly positioned an air solid over the leg earlier than he was carted off the sector.
ESPN’s Katherine Terrell contributed to this report.