The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be hoping for good news in the coming days after Ryan Jensen, their Pro Bowl center, was taken off the field on a cart late in Thursday’s training camp practice. Head Coach Todd Bowles pinpointed the location of the injury but did not have further information on its severity immediately after practice.
“All I know is he went down right know with a knee,” said Bowles. “We’ll see when we go inside going forward and go from there.”
Jensen was hurt during the final period of the 105-minute practice, a two-minute move-the-ball exercise. He and left guard Aaron Stinnie ended up on the ground but Stinnie was able to get up quickly. Jensen eventually was helped up into the cart by a number of his O-Line teammates. The Buccaneers have yet to put on pads so there is minimal contact on any snap; Jensen may have just been the recipient of bad luck.
“It’s unfortunate right now, because there was nothing fancy going on in there,” said Bowles. “We’ve got to look at the tape and see what happened. It didn’t look like anything. As far as how it happened, I don’t know. We’ve got to take a look at the tape and hope for the best.”
It may be a couple of days before the Buccaneers have a clear prognosis on how much time Jensen will miss.
“Right now we feel terrible for Jensen,” said General Manager Jason Licht. “[I] don’t have any update on that; we won’t for some time. We have tests, some tests you have to wait for a couple days before you can give them. You have to wait for swelling and things like that to go down. So I don’t have any update on that other than that it was a knee injury and we’re hoping for the best. But we’ll have updates on that later.”
Second-year man Robert Hainsey stepped in with the first line at center after Jensen left the field. Licht said that Jensen would be one of two primary candidates to fill the position for whatever amount of time Jensen is unavailable. Hainsey was listed as the backup center on the Buccaneers’ depth chart…
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