Week 5 Thursday Injury Report: Frankie Luvu held out
CHARLOTTE — Panthers linebacker Frankie Luvu`s gambling greater snaps than ever, so he is going to want a bit protection alongside the way.
Luvu turned into sporting a purple jersey whilst he got here out to the exercise discipline and turned into held out of Thursday’s consultation due to a shoulder damage.
Luvu has already performed 277 snaps of protection this year — ninety three percentage of the team’s overall protective snaps. That’s greater protective snaps than he is performed in all however one in all his preceding 4 NFL seasons and the maximum seeing that he performed 442 for the Jets his rookie year (2018). He performed 249 protective snaps, and 303 unique groups snaps closing season.
He additionally takes place to be greater effective than ever.
He’s been in on a couple of protective touchdowns this season, forcing a fumble that Marquis Haynes Sr. scored on in opposition to the Saints after which returning an interception for a rating closing week in opposition to the Cardinals. He’s additionally the team’s main tackler at the season and has 5 tackles for a loss (tied for 6th withinside the league).
The Panthers have been additionally with out 4 different gamers throughout Thursday’s exercise.
Safety Xavier Woods (hamstring), extensive receiver Laviska Shenault Jr. (hamstring), cornerback Stantley Thomas-Oliver III (thigh), and tight stop Stephen Sullivan (again) have been held out of the padded exercise.
They’re nonetheless hopeful Woods can play this week, a selected want seeing that they simply positioned fellow beginning protection Jeremy Chinn on IR in advance this week.
Running again Christian McCaffrey turned into eliminated from the damage record Thursday after he turned into given Wednesday off to rest. He practiced absolutely Thursday, and has no damage designation.
Linebacker Shaq Thompson (knee) and Haynes (knee) have been additionally complete members once they have been constrained in Wednesday’s exercise.
Click right here to view the total damage record.
