Alaina Getzenberg
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Payments rookie cornerback Maxwell Hairston suffered a proper LCL sprain in Tuesday's follow however prevented a significant harm, together with his ACL intact, a supply confirmed to ESPN.
The Payments haven't offered a particular timeline for Hairston's return.
Hairston's non-contact harm that cornerback Dane Jackson described as a “freak little trip-up” passed off throughout the person interval of Tuesday's coaching camp follow at St. John Fisher College, with the cornerbacks engaged on a go rush drill.
Hairston was competing with returning veteran and 2017 Payments first-round choose Tre'Davious White for the No. 2 cornerback job reverse Christian Benford, and that battle will take a pause with the rookie set to overlook time. Different cornerbacks on the roster competing for roster spots embody Dane Jackson and Ja'Marcus Ingram.
NFL Community first reported the severity of the harm Wednesday.
Hairston was attended to by head athletic coach Nate Breske, who seemed on the first-round choose's proper knee earlier than slowly serving to him up and aiding Hairston in limping off the sector. Benford and White went over to speak to Hairston earlier than he was helped to the crew's medical tent.
“I used to be upset, as a result of that is any person that is like a pure-hearted child, any person that you simply work with off the sector a lot, you place in a lot time with 'em after which they fall like that, one thing occur to 'em,” Benford stated. “… You by no means need that to occur. You by no means wish to see that occur. You do not even pray that in your worst enemies.”
Nickel nook Taron Johnson stated the crew stated a prayer for Hairston.
Hairston, who turns 22 on Aug. 6, didn't return to the sector. The Payments have an off day from camp follow on Wednesday.
