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Chris Olave injury update: Saints WR discharged from hospital after being carted off field vs. Panthers

Saints WR Chris Olave took a big hit in Week 9 and was carted off the field and taken to a local Charlotte hospital for evaluation.

Chris Olave #12 of the New Orleans Saints lines up before the snap during an NFL football game against the Kansas City Chiefs at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on October 7, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Chris Olave #12 of the New Orleans Saints lines up before the snap during an NFL football game against the Kansas City Chiefs at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on October 7, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri.
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UPDATE: It’s great news for Saints WR Chris Olave, who has been released from the hospital and will be able to travel back to New Orleans with the team. Earlier, the Saints PR team had announced that Chris Olave was ruled OUT for the remainder of the game and was being evaluated at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center.

The team also announced that Olave was confirmed to have a concussion and he does have movement in all of his extremities.


New Orleans Saints wide receiver Chris Olave has been taken off the field on a stretcher in Week 9 against the Carolina Panthers. Olave went across the middle of the field and took a big hit from safety Xavier Woods on an incompletion. Woods was flagged for unnecessary roughness on the hit.

Olave was initially motionless after the hit, but was able to move his extremities when he was placed on the stretcher and taken off on a cart. He was subsequently taken to a Charlotte hospital, per reporter Jeff Nowak. He reportedly lost consciousness at one point following the hit.

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