3:47 PM ET
Stephen HolderESPN
The tumultuous play of Indianapolis Colts All-Pro linebacker Shaquille Leonard is taking different detour.
After being ruled retired of Sunday's crippled against the Las Vegas Raiders earlier Friday, the Colts present are readying to spot Leonard connected injured reserve aft a setback successful his roadworthy backmost from offseason backmost surgery, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
The determination means Leonard volition miss astatine slightest 4 of the Colts' 8 remaining games.
Interim caput manager Jeff Saturday said Friday that Leonard did not decorativeness Wednesday's workout due to the fact that thing "felt different," with the backmost and nerve-related issues Leonard has been dealing with since undergoing country successful June.
"They scanned him and they're moving with him, evaluating him," Saturday said of the team's aesculapian staff.
Leonard has played successful conscionable 3 games this season. He made his debut successful Week 4 connected Oct. 2, but helium sustained a breached chemoreceptor and concussion successful that crippled aft a collision that bent his look mask. Leonard returned to enactment successful Week 8 but present volition beryllium sidelined again aft playing successful the Colts' past 2 games.
It's been a frustrating respective months for Leonard, who doctors discovered had a impinged nervus successful his backmost causing little assemblage pain. Leonard expanded connected the dilatory advancement earlier this week.
"Each week I've felt better, starting from my archetypal week of practice, not being capable to determination and being stiff," helium said. "In the past 2 games, I spot myself moving astir better. But we're inactive not there. The nervus inactive isn't firing successful my calf."
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