ATLANTA (AP) — Detroit Lions security Morice Norris was in steady situation after he was attended to for about 20 minutes and brought off the sector in an ambulance Friday evening towards Atlanta, with the preseason sport ending early.
“Morice Norris is in stable condition and has feeling and movement in all his extremities,” the Lions stated in a press release. “He will remain at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta overnight for observation. We would like to thank the Atlanta Falcons organization, the EMS team at Mercedes-Benz Stadium and the doctors and staff at Grady for their support.”
Norris was damage with 14:50 to go attempting to sort out operating again Nathan Carter. When play resumed, Falcons quarterback Emory Jones took a snap and held the ball as gamers from each groups stood on the line of scrimmage because the clock continued to run.
Lastly, with 6:31 left, an official introduced the sport had been suspended “per New York” with Detroit up 17-10.
Lions coach Dan Campbell requested for prayers for the 24-year-old Norris.
“We’re simply praying for Mo and ask that everyone prays for him,” Campbell stated.
Campbell stated Norris had his mom with him on the hospital.
Norris, the previous Fresno State participant listed as Detroit’s second-team security, hit Carter along with his facemask dealing with the operating again’s midsection, and the defender’s head snapped again after making the hit.
Lions quarterback Kyle Allen stated it was instantly apparent the medical personnel noticed this as a severe harm.
“Usually you see a couple trainers out there,” Allen stated. “It’s never good when they bring out the stretchers. We just started praying for him and hoping for the best. When it’s taking that long, with that many people and that many trainers around him, you’re just hoping for the best.”
Added Allen: “It’s simply terrible. … You join soccer and also you perceive the danger, you perceive the harm threat. You by no means assume one thing like that’s going to occur.
“At the end of the day we’re all out here as football players. We may be on 32 different teams but we’ve all played football our whole lives and had our own injuries and been through it.”
Campbell and Falcons coach Raheem Morris made the choice to not end the sport.
“Raheem Morris is a class act,” Campbell stated. “He’s the ultimate class act. We agreed it just didn’t feel right to finish that game.”
Morris stated it was “common courtesy” for the coaches to determine to not end the sport.
“It was tough to watch,” Morris stated. “It was robust for the opposite workforce to see getting a teammate damage that method. It was the suitable factor to do for Dan and his crew and his workforce and every part we had happening proper there, I believed that was the suitable factor.
“You never like to see anybody get hurt in any type of game or any type of way. It was a tough deal for those guys, a tough deal for us, a tough deal all across the board.”
Allen stated the choice to not end the sport was straightforward to make.
“I don’t think anyone on that sideline wanted to play,” Allen stated. “We weren’t part of that decision but you could look in anyone’s eyes and see that.”
Although the choice to not end the sport appeared dramatic, there have been two precedents from preseason video games in consecutive weeks in August 2023.
New England’s sport at Inexperienced Bay in Week 2 of the 2023 preseason was referred to as off when Patriots cornerback Isaiah Bolden was carted off within the fourth quarter. Bolden appeared to collide with teammate Calvin Munson whereas making an attempt to make successful on a cross completion to Malik Heath of the Packers.
Bolden was taken to a hospital and launched the following day.
Per week later, a sport between Miami and Jacksonville was not accomplished after Dolphins receiver Daewood Davis was carted off within the fourth quarter. Davis was damage when he ran a slant route and was making an attempt to catch a cross when he was hit by Jaguars linebacker Dequan Jackson.
Davis was launched from the hospital a day later.
The 2 scary accidents occurred some eight months after Buffalo Payments security Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest and needed to be resuscitated on the sector throughout a daily season sport at Cincinnati in January 2023. Hamlin has loved a outstanding restoration and resumed soccer the next season and spent final yr as a Payments starter.
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AP Sports activities Author John Wawrow contributed to this report.
