The New Orleans Saints suffered their third loss in a row on Monday, and that wasn’t the team’s only bad news.
Quarterback Derek Carr, who exited the Saints’ 26-13 road defeat to the Kansas City Chiefs due to an oblique injury, is headed for an MRI exam to assess the extent of the ailment.
His response postgame when asked how he felt?
“Not good,” Carr said. “We’ll get an MRI and all that kind of stuff tomorrow and figure it out.”
The injury occurred as Carr threw an incompletion on fourth-and-8 at the Kansas City 42-yard line with the Saints down by 10 early in the fourth quarter.
Carr was hit by a Chiefs defender on the play, but he said he got hurt on his throwing motion, not on the hit.
He hoped he would be able to return to the game but soon realized that wasn’t a possibility.
“It wasn’t like dealing with pain. … I couldn’t do what I needed to do,” Carr said. “In the simplest form … I asked if there was anything (the medical staff) can do about it, and there was not enough time to do that. So, I would have done anything to be out there and keep fighting, but I couldn’t. It sucks.”
Jake Haener took over as the Saints’ quarterback for the team’s last offensive series, and he completed 2 of 7 passes for 17 yards as New Orleans again turned the ball over on downs near midfield.
Carr finished the night 18 of 28 for 165 yards with two touchdown passes and one interception. On the season, the 33-year-old veteran is completing 70.3 percent of his passes for 989 yards with eight touchdowns and four interceptions for the Saints (2-3).
The four-time Pro Bowler owns a 74-90 career record as a starter for the Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders (2014-22) and New Orleans (2023-24).
