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Derek Carr shared injury update during church sermon
By Ross Jackson -LouisianaSports.net
New Orleans Saints quarterback Derek Carr has spoken publicly for the first time since news broke of his season-threatening shoulder injury.
While delivering a church sermon in Las Vegas, the site of his former team team the Las Vegas Raiders, Carr opened up about the injury, the skepticism shared by fans and, vaguely, his opinions on the circulating reports that he has been using the injury as a means of leverage to leave New Orleans.
“Yes, I have a shoulder injury,” Carr said while on stage at ChurchLV. “Despite what ESPN says and what some lady on a podcast might think. I have an MRI report to prove it. The team knows about it. We’ve been in constant communication. There’s nothing wrong. We’re figuring it out and we’re going to go forward with that,”
The information he shared isn’t wildly different from what his brother, David Carr, shared before the draft began last week on NFL Network. ...
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New Orleans Saints quarterback Derek Carr has spoken publicly for the first time since news broke of his season-threatening shoulder injury.
While delivering a church sermon in Las Vegas, the site of his former team team the Las Vegas Raiders, Carr opened up about the injury, the skepticism shared by fans and, vaguely, his opinions on the circulating reports that he has been using the injury as a means of leverage to leave New Orleans.
“Yes, I have a shoulder injury,” Carr said while on stage at ChurchLV. “Despite what ESPN says and what some lady on a podcast might think. I have an MRI report to prove it. The team knows about it. We’ve been in constant communication. There’s nothing wrong. We’re figuring it out and we’re going to go forward with that,”
The information he shared isn’t wildly different from what his brother, David Carr, shared before the draft began last week on NFL Network. ...
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