WINNIPEG – Winnipeg Blue Bombers quarterback Drew Willy will start in Thursday’s home game against the BC Lions despite suffering a suspected MCL sprain on his right leg over the weekend.
Willy was injured during the third quarter of Saturday’s 32-3 loss in Edmonton. A pair of Eskimos teamed up to sack Winnipeg’s primary pivot with one player hitting him high and the other low. Willy was kept out for the rest of the game and could be seen on the sidelines with his knee wrapped in ice.
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Willy took part in the Bombers only practice this week on Tuesday. He ran several plays while wearing sweatpants with what appeared to be a brace on his right leg. The CFL club said it would wait until releasing its depth chart before naming Thursday’s starting quarterback.
A former Bombers athletic therapist told Global News on Tuesday he thinks Willy sprained his MCL.
“The way he was hit would of caused the joint to open,” said Dr. Glen Bergeron, Associate Dean of the University of Winnipeg’s Gupta Faculty of Kinesiology and Applied Health. “That would have caused the ligament to have been stretched.”
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A painful injury but one Bergeron says could be played with.
“The knee is good and sound in terms of its structure,” said Bergeron. “As long as he’s properly protected and he can over come some of that pain, he’ll be fine.”
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