Injury Updates?

Please post the latest information regarding injured Redskins here. Particularly, I am curious to know the status of Chris Samuels, who is scheduled to undergo a MRI scan today.

Samuels looks to be ok:

Samuels' Status Listed As Day-to-Day
By Gary Fitzgerald
Redskins.com
October 31, 2005

Nursing a sprained knee, left tackle Chris Samuels said on Monday that he will likely miss practice time this week, but added that he expects to be available for Sunday's game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

Samuels, whose status is day-to-day, sprained his knee in the second half of the Redskins' 36-0 loss to the New York Giants. He underwent an MRI on Monday morning and the results were encouraging.

"There is nothing structurally wrong with it, which is good news," head coach Joe Gibbs said. "It's just a matter of when he gets to feeling better with it." In describing the injury, Samuels said his knee gave out during a play in the third quarter. He tried to continue, but he eventually gave way to veteran Ray Brown.

"It hurt that I couldn't be out there," Samuels said. "If you're going to go down like we did, you want to be out there with your teammates."

Second-year lineman Jim Molinaro is listed as the backup to Samuels, but Molinaro has limited experience playing in the NFL. Gibbs likes Brown's versatility--the 20-year NFL veteran can play any position along the offensive line--so if Samuels is sidelined, Gibbs has options.

Gibbs said that he was equally concerned about having available bodies for practice this week.

"There'll be guys who will get their opportunity to really help the team--and some of them may be young guys," he said. "Up here, that's how you sometimes make your career and get things started."

Asked about the impact of Samuels missing playing time, running back Clinton Portis replied: "It would hurt us, but you have Ray and you have guys who will need to step up a notch."

from skins.com

Thank the Lord! I thought our season would be effectively over without our starting left tackle.

Let's hope it doesn't hamper him too much. I think Cornelius Griffen is a big concern as well. In Gibbs press conference, he said that no one seemed to have too serious an injury, but a number of guys had things that might linger. He also said that this might be the week that some young guys need to step up.

Check out his presser up now on skins.com. I always feel better after hearing Joe lay it out--not becuase he has some magic happy words, but because he clearly cares the most and is sweating all the details. Also, he makes some enlightening comments about how the team watches the film together and as a group criticize each other--it's not Gibbs yelling about this or that per se, but it's the team as a unit analyzing and fixing what's wrong. Let's hope the team as a unit gets it together, and feels so sick about this loss that they refuse to let it happen again. We'll see what kind of group we have. Time to step up.