Kansas City Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles injured his foot in practice Monday morning. After he was carted off the field in agony, the star player went back to the training room for X-rays. The test revealed no serious damage and team doctors say they are treating the injury to Charles’ foot as a sprain.
Chiefs general manager John Dorsey spoke in more detail about the injury later that day. Dorsey said Charles’ exit off the practice field was “more precautionary than anything.”
“It is a foot strain,” Dorsey said during a Sirius XM interview … “I think sometimes when you have a player of the magnitude of Jamaal Charles, things do get magnified a little bit. It’s more precautionary. We understand what he is and what value he does have for this team. Right now everything is good.”
“But yeah, you hold your breath every time,” Dorsey continued. “People don’t realize the practice that Andy runs, it’s a really hard practice. What he does is conditions the human body to play in the games and I think that speaks volumes. If you look — knock on wood — our injuries have been very minimal here, little strains and soft tissues but nothing of major consequence.”
Charles rushed for 1,509 yards last year after coming back from a torn ACL he suffered in 2011. The running back has had three 1,000-yard seasons in the last four years. The Chiefs need Charles to stay healthy because they have little experience behind him with second-year player Cyrus Gray, rookie Knile Davis, and 25-year-old Shane Draughn.
