Let’s focus on the good news. New Orleans Saints tight end Taysom Hill returned home from visiting a hospital on Sunday for evaluation on a chest injury he sustained in his team’s win over the Dallas Cowboys. And NewOrleans.Football’s Mike Triplett reports that Hill joined his teammates on their flight back, too, which suggests he avoided something truly serious like a collapsed lung.
That would line up with how Saints head coach Dennis Allen characterized his hospital visit after the game, saying that it was more a precautionary measure than some sort of emergency. Still, we’re short on details, and we may not get more clarity until the injury report is posted this Wednesday.
So stay tuned for more information as it becomes available. There’s a wide range of possibilities here — a fractured rib, torn pectoral muscle, or something else — but many chest injuries are easily diagnosable on the field or in the stadium’s X-ray room. Let’s try to limit speculation until details emerge. Hill is a critically important piece of the Saints offense even when he isn’t touching the football himself and it would be a big blow for him to miss much time.