Patriots cornerback Isaiah Bolden suffered a head damage within the fourth quarter of Saturday’s preseason sport at Green Bay, which was suspended shortly after he needed to be immobilized and brought off on a stretcher.
Pats coach Bill Belichick provided an replace on Bolden’s standing Monday morning, a day after the Patriots introduced Bolden had been launched from the hospital and would fly again with the workforce to New England.
“I talked to Isaiah yesterday, and he’s in good spirits,” Belichick stated on WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Show.” “(He’s) recovering, obviously. So we’ll just take it day to day. Just take it day to day. But certainly (he) seems a lot better today than it looked like Saturday night, so that’s a good thing. It’s good for him to fly back with the team and everyone to see him. He’s got a lot of support here.”
A supply instructed the Herald’s Doug Kyed that Bolden has a concussion. According to the NFL Network, Bolden wakened Sunday with a headache. His timeline for a doable return is unknown.
Bolden’s state of affairs partially motivated Belichick to cancel beforehand scheduled joint practices at Tennessee on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Patriots will nonetheless play the Titans of their preseason finale Friday, however as a substitute observe on their very own this week in Foxboro.
“(I) just felt like, for a number of reasons, it was the best thing to do for the team. I talked to Robert (Kraft) and Jonathan (Kraft) about it, and we all collectively felt like that was the best thing to do,” Belichick stated. “There’s a number of factors involved but, obviously, the seriousness of the injury was part of it.”
Belichick additionally remarked in regards to the work of the Patriots’ medical workers, which attended to Bolden instantly after he went down. The 6-foot-2, 205-pounder collapsed to the turf after absorbing an inadvertent helmet-to-helmet hit from teammate Calvin Munson early in Saturday’s fourth quarter.
“I thought it was really impressive just watching the situation, the doctors,” Belichick stated. “There’s Dr. (Scott) Martin and Dr. (Gian) Corrado, who’s an emergency doctor, Jim Whalen — those guys were right on top of it. I walked out there to see, and I don’t know anything, but just watching them and the way they handled it all was fantastic.”
MassLive first reported Bolden suffered a concussion.
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