Details are trickling in, and it’s sounding worse and worse for Teddy Bridgewater—whose knee injury Tuesday required an ambulance ride to the hospital and forced the Minnesota Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer to shut down practice after less than a half hour.
“Gruesome, according to some people there, is absolutely what it was,” NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport said, via Pro Football Talk. “Players were disturbed, throwing up, not wanting to see, looking away as quickly as possible.”
At a press conference after practice, Zimmer called Bridgewater’s knee injury “significant,” but failed to dive into the details. At one point, however, Zimmer compared Tuesday to the day his wife passed away, while also revealing that Bridgewater needed to be “sedated” at the hospital or on his trip there.
Maybe the less details, the better. But here’s what else we know.
According to Matt Vensel of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the initial call placed on the emergency scanner labeled Bridgewater’s injury as a “dislocated knee.”
FWIW, Teddy Bridgewater’s injury was called in on the emergency scanner as a dislocated knee. That’s not to say that is the full extent.
— Matt Vensel (@mattvensel) August 30, 2016
One report said Bridgewater’s leg “snapped” and his knee was “flailing around.”
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Report from eye witness at #Vikings camp. QB Teddy Bridgewater "his leg snapped and his knee was flailing around" @FOX29philly
— Howard Eskin (@howardeskin) August 30, 2016
Bridgewater’s 2016 season is almost certainly done. The bigger question now is if the young quarterback’s NFL career is in any kind of jeopardy moving forward.