The New Yr’s Day soccer recreation was lower quick for Philadelphia Eagles defensive finish Josh Sweat.

In the course of the Eagles’ face-off towards their rivals, the New Orleans Saints, the skilled athlete was carted off the sphere and brought to a close-by hospital after receiving a neck harm throughout a collision within the first quarter.

“Eagles DE Josh Sweat has been transported to an area hospital with a neck harm for precautionary causes,” the Philadelphia Eagles mentioned in a Twitter assertion on Jan. 1. “He has motion in all extremities.”

In keeping with NBC Sports activities, after Sweat tackled Saints fullback, Adam Prentice, headfirst on the finish of a third-down conversion, he did not stand up from the bottom. Medical personnel then attended to Sweat following the collision and stayed on the sphere for a number of minutes earlier than transferring him onto a stretcher and lifting him off the sphere.

ESPN reported that the Eagles crew rushed by the 25-year-old’s facet to indicate their assist for him.