David Newton
Carolina Panthers second-round choose Nic Scourton is week-to-week after struggling a collapsed lung in Thursday's joint follow towards the Texans in Houston.
The sting rusher out of Texas A&M initially was recognized with heat-related signs following the session. Coach Dave Canales revealed after Saturday's 20-3 preseason loss to the Texans that the 20-year-old was taken to Memorial Hermann Medical Heart in Houston for observations, the place it was decided he had suffered a collapsed lung.
Canales stated Scourton spent Thursday evening at Memorial Herman, then was pushed again to Charlotte, North Carolina, as a result of flying can worsen lung-related points. He arrived there Saturday morning after being accompanied on the trip by relations and an athletic coach.
“It is actually week-to-week with these kinds of issues,” Canales stated. “I've heard from trainers, from totally different coaches, the place a man performed the following week.
“So we have got to be sensible on that one and allow you to know the place we're directly we get again to Charlotte.”
Additionally, Carolina backup quarterback Andy Dalton suffered an elbow harm after being hit throughout a throw Saturday. Canales stated the 37-year-old could have imaging Sunday, including Dalton instructed him he was fantastic.
Beginning quarterback Bryce Younger was 0-for-2 passing in six performs with a sack as Carolina fell to 0-2 within the preseason. Canales stated Younger and the starters won't play in Thursday's preseason finale towards the Pittsburgh Steelers.
