Chargers Injury Report: All-Pro Packers CB Keisean Nixon Departs Game With Apparent Leg Injury

A big loss if he can't return.

The Green Bay Packers may have just scored the first touchdown of their ongoing home bout with your Los Angeles Chargers (they now lead 7-3 early in the second quarter), but they also may have just lost an All-Pro cornerback for the day.

Keisean Nixon got taken down by the Bolts on a 30-yard kickoff return, and landed awkwardly on his leg, as Wes Hodkiewicz of Packers.com reports. 

Bill Hubert of Sports Illustrated reports (and those of watching saw) that Nixon was able to stand up and depart the field under his own weight, which is good news at least with regards to the extent of the injury. 

He headed straight for the Green Bay sideline to receive treatment from Packers staffers, as Rob Demovsky of ESPN details.

The 5'10", 200-pound Nixon, who went undrafted out of South Carolina in 2019, was the league's kickoff return yards leader last season while en route to a First-Team All-Pro selection. For 2023, Nixon has 28 solo tackles (nine assists), four pass deflections, and 1.5 stuffs thus far.

The precise extent of the injury is unclear as of this writing.

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