INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -The Indianapolis Colts lost two starters with left knee injuries in the second quarter of Sunday’s game against Denver.
Eight-time Pro Bowl receiver Marvin Harrison sustained a bruised knee and missed most of the second quarter after going to the locker room. Then, in the final minute of the half, linebacker Rob Morris was carted off the field with a brace around his left knee.
Harrison was hurt when two players ran into him while Harrison was blocking for Joesph Addai late in the first quarter. Harrison limped off the field, missed one play, then caught his first pass of the game. He remained on the field for the final four plays of Indy’s first touchdown drive.
But after coming off the field following the drive, he consulted with team doctors and went to the locker room.
Harrison is the Colts’ career leader in receptions, yards receiving and touchdown catches and ranks fourth on the NFL’s career reception list (1,039).
Morris, who missed the Colts’ last two games with an abdominal strain, was hurt when Denver tight end Daniel Graham was blocking him on a running play. Morris crumpled to the ground, took off his helmet and put his hands on his face before being helped onto a golf cart and taken off the field. There was no immediate comment from the team on Morris’ injury.
Morris was the Colts’ first-round choice in 2000 and was a key ingredient in Indy’s Super Bowl run after moving from middle linebacker to outside linebacker, where he regained the starting job late last season.
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