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Chris Olave taken off field on cart after big hit from Xavier Woods
Saints WR Chris Olave took a big hit in Week 9 and has been taken off the field on a cart.
UPDATE: The Saints PR team announced that Chris Olave is OUT for the remainder of the game and is being evaluated at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center.
The team also announced that Olave is 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.
Saints WR Chris Olave is down on the field after taking a hit to the head. He is being stretchered off of the field. Just awful. https://t.co/hXFfKqi1Hq pic.twitter.com/BpEsNcy34V
— Arye Pulli (@AryePulli) November 3, 2024
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