More on Matt Stafford’s Injury

As the dust settles in Chicago this afternoon, reactions to Stafford’s injury are beginning to emerge from Lions camp. From the Detroit Free-Press:

“He twisted his knee a little bit,” coach Jim Schwartz said. “Obviously we’ll have to do a lot of tests and those kind of things. He wasn’t able to really get it warmed back up again, and we didn’t want to put him back in the game.” [...]

Replays showed Stafford yelling and grabbing his knee immediately, but Stafford, in a relatively upbeat mood after the game, said he didn’t remember that. [...]

“It was a silent yell,” Stafford said. “I don’t know. Just a reaction, I guess.”

“If he was healthy enough to go back in the game, he would have gone back in the game,” Schwartz said. “I wasn’t conceding the game. We weren’t putting other players in.”

So while Stafford’s mood would suggest there’s nothing dire in this injury news, it seems Schwartz confirmed that the injury was at least serious enough to keep him sidelined for the rest of today’s game. We’ll probably have to wait on test results to emerge before we can get a more definitive prognosis, but for now, it looks like a knee sprain, and Stafford’s status for next week would appear to be questionable, at best.