Report: Chargers' team doctor punctured Tyrod Taylor's lung when giving pain-killing shot

[Henry]

There are so many reasons why this shouldn't happen. The NFL likes to pretend to care about player safety. They aren't fooling anyone.

Just keep scoring them touchdowns, kid.

Report: Chargers' team doctor punctured Tyrod Taylor's lung when giving pain-killing shot

If you thought that Week 2 of the 2020 NFL season was already a brutal time for injuries (and it certainly was)… well, we’ve got another one for you. And this is not at all good. Per ES…

touchdownwire.usatoday.com

Per ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the Los Angeles Chargers’ team doctor was trying to administer a pain-killing shot to quarterback Tyrod Taylor before the team’s game against the Chiefs… and accidentally punctured one of Taylor’s lungs. Taylor was trying to play despite cracked ribs, but that’s why the Chargers had to put rookie Justin Herbert out there against the defending Super Bowl champs with no notice whatsoever.

Taylor suffered the injury in the Chargers’ Week 1 win over the Bengals, but per Schefter, he didn’t have an MRI until later in the week. Instead of playing through the injury, Taylor had to be hospitalized for some obvious breathing issues.

Doctors have now told Taylor that he will be out “indefinitely,” which means you won’t likely see him against the Panthers this Sunday.

 

[Win4us]

Damn how hard was the dr pushing the syringe? Seems they’d have a topical something or other to just rub in & avoid needles.