NFL world holds its breath after sickening injury

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Seattle linebacker Darrell Taylor near the Seahawks' crippled contiguous against the Pittsburgh Steelers connected a stretcher with an unspecified injury, and manager Pete Carroll said preliminary CT scans were clear.

Taylor fell to the crushed during a three-yard summation by Pittsburgh's Najee Harris with the Steelers driving adjacent midfield with 3:10 to play successful the 4th quarter.

Taylor was connected the crushed for much than 10 minutes portion being attended to by aesculapian staff. Players from some sides came retired to connection support. He was placed connected the stretcher and taken to hospital.

The incidental near fans flocking to societal media to dependable their support.

Former Pittsburgh linebacker Ryan Shazier, whose vocation was chopped abbreviated by an on-field wounded that resulted successful spinal stabilisation surgery, led the outpouring of enactment crossed Twitter.

Carroll said aft the crippled the squad got a bully preliminary study connected the 24-year-old rookie and that determination were much tests to beryllium done.

The Seahawks said Taylor had feeling successful each of his extremities and that helium was expected to alert location with the team.

Carroll besides said Taylor was not blessed being carted disconnected the field.

"He was truthful huffy to beryllium taken disconnected the tract similar that. He wanted to get up," Carroll said.

"They wouldn't fto him bash it, due to the fact that they had to bash each the unafraid methods to instrumentality attraction of him. He didn't privation immoderate portion of that."

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