UPDATE (2:20 p.m.): Cleveland running back D’Onta Foreman is set to be released from the hospital Thursday after a scary injury suffered in practice at The Greenbrier in West Virginia, leading to him being taken to a hospital by helicopter.
According to a statement from the Browns Thursday updating Foreman’s condition, X-rays and CT scans were both negative for Foreman.
X-rays and CT scans were negative, the team announced Thursday afternoon. Foreman is expected to be released from Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital and will return to the team,” the statement said, according to a tweet from reporter Chris Easterling of the Akron Beacon Journal.
UPDATE (11:40 a.m.): According to NFL Insider Jordan Schultz, Foreman has what is described as an “upper back/lower neck” injury, which was suffered in training camp practice Thursday at The Greenbrier in West Virginia.
Schultz added that Foreman is in good spirits and is reportedly “talking and laughing and has movement in all extremities.”
Our original story is below.
Cleveland Browns running back D’Onta Foreman was seriously injured in a drill Thursday during the team’s training camp at The Greenbrier in West Virginia and transported to a Roanoke, Virginia, hospital for further evaluation, according to a statement from the team.
Foreman reportedly has movement in his extremities and is under further evaluation.
D’Onta Foreman, who signed a one-year deal in free agency with Cleveland after spending last season in Chicago, was reportedly injured in a kickoff drill and was immobilized.
Cleveland.com’s Mary Kay Cabot was the first to report that Foreman was being immobilized and taken off on a backboard to a waiting ambulance. Shortly after Cabot’s tweets, though, The Athletic’s Zac Jackson reported that the ambulance had not left the parking lot and that a helicopter was called in to transport Foreman to the hospital.
Roanoke is roughly 70 miles away from The Greenbrier, where the Browns are holding training camp, which could explain the need for a helicopter.
According to the statement from the Browns, Foreman was injured when he took a “direct blow to the head that resulted in neck pain.”
Once Foreman reported the pain, the Browns training staff reportedly utilized the “standard emergency actions procedures” to stabilize Foreman.
Following Foreman’s injury and removal from the field on a stretcher, the Browns were seen taking a knee, according to a video from Cabot on Twitter.
The Browns will provide more updates on Foreman’s condition. For now, according to Cabot, the veteran running back is “in good spirits” following the scary injury during training camp.
D’Onta Foreman has rushed for 2,326 yards and 14 touchdowns in his career on 552 carries and had a career year in 2022 with the Carolina Panthers, rushing for 914 yards and five touchdowns that season.
