Daniel Jones Feared to Have Suffered "Significant" Knee Injury
New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones is feared to have suffered an ACL tear in his right knee, an injury that occurred at the end of the first quarter in the team's Week 9 game against the Las Vegas Raiders, the Giants down 7-0.
Jones was injured at the end of the first quarter when he started to roll out, and his right leg appeared to buckle underneath him. Jones tried to walk off the injury during the break in between quarters, but on the first play of the second quarter, Jones went to plant, and his leg gave out from underneath him.
Jones was immediately attended to by Giants doctors and was helped to the medical tent on the sideline. After being evaluated, he walked under his own power back to the locker room, accompanied by trainers. Rookie Tommy DeVito, the only active quarterback on the game-day roster, replaced him with Tyrod Taylor on IR and veteran Matt Barley having not been elevated from the practice squad.
The Giants, who ruled Jones out of the game shortly after he suffered the injury, never gave a definitive diagnosis. According to the NFL Network, the quarterback is feared to have suffered " a significant knee injury, potentially a torn ACL based on initial tests."
Giants head coach Brian Daboll told reporters after the game that Jones felt his knee buckle. "Then he was running it off. We went over to him, we talked to him. He said, 'I'm good.' Then he went back in and obviously wasn't."
Jones, who will undergo an MRI on Monday morning, had returned to action after missing three weeks due to a neck injury. Daboll told reporters after the game that Jones would have more tests done to determine the severity of his injury.
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