{"id":73365,"date":"2025-08-16T19:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T19:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73365\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T19:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T19:22:07","slug":"colts-offensive-lineman-freeland-carted-off-with-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73365\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts offensive lineman Freeland carted off with leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indianapolis-colts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colts<\/a> offensive lineman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4429636\/blake-freeland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Freeland<\/a> was carted off the field with a lower right leg injury during Saturday&#8217;s preseason game against Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Freeland was injured early in the second quarter on a running play on third-and-1. As the play ended, his right leg got pinned underneath the pile before Freeland fell to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Trainers immediately put the leg in a boot. When Freeland was lifted onto the cart, teammates gathered around to encourage him. He was ruled out of the game a few minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Freeland, a third-year veteran out of Brigham Young, was expected to back up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3121595\/braden-smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Braden Smith<\/a> at right tackle.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS &#8212; Colts offensive lineman Blake Freeland was carted off the field with a lower right leg injury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-73365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}