REGINA – The Saskatchewan Roughriders’ list of walking-wounded continues to grow.
The “Green and White” are already dealing with a rash of serious injuries to key players this season, and now another one of the team’s veterans could potentially be down for the count.
Receiver Chris Getzlaf needed to be helped off the field during Wednesday’s practice with an apparent leg injury.
“I was on the practice field so I don’t have the update,” said head coach Corey Chamblin. “He’d been dealing with a lower body issue and going back and forth with it.
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The 32-year-old didn’t dress for the club’s Week Nine loss to Calgary, and appears to have aggravated a nagging leg injury.
“It’s the same one from this season. I don’t know whether it’s the left or the right, but it’d be the same thing he’d been going through for the last couple of weeks,” explained Chamblin. “It was one of those things where we wanted to see today, push him through it to see if he can actually play this week. It didn’t react the way we wanted it to, like I said it reacted negatively.
While the extent of the injury isn’t known quite yet, the nine-year vet will miss his second straight game this weekend when the Riders travel to the nation’s capital for a date with the Redblacks.
“All I know is he’ll be out for this game, I don’t know the length of the time that he’ll be out.”
Getzlaf has registered 26 receptions for 330 receiving yards and four touchdowns in 2015.
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