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Redskins’ Taylor will see consecutive-games streak end with shin injury
By PFW staff
Sept. 22, 2008
Redskins DE Jason Taylor played in his 133rd straight game in Sunday’s win over the Cardinals, but that streak will end after he underwent a medical procedure to alleviate severe pain in his shin.
Taylor reportedly was kicked in the shin by a Cardinals player on Sunday, and when Taylor woke up Monday, he was suffering. Doctors, afraid he had suffered nerve damage, drained blood from his calf in a 20-minute operation that will leave him out for Sunday’s game against the Cowboys — the Redskins’ final regular-season contest at Texas Stadium.
“He’s going to be fine. Our problem is that he’s going to be out for this Dallas game for sure. I can’t tell you beyond that,” head coach Jim Zorn said Monday.
Taylor nearly missed the season opener with a knee sprain he suffered in the third preseason game, but he played against the Giants in Week One. His streak was the third-longest current consecutive-games mark for defensive players in the NFL, behind the Buccaneers’ Derrick Brooks and Ronde Barber.
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