Getty ImagesSaints wide receiver Marques Colston suffered a broken collarbone in Thursday night’s loss to the Packers.
Jay Glazer of FOX Sports reports that Colston will miss approximately four weeks with the injury. Four weeks is usually the best-case scenario for a broken collarbone; players frequently miss more time than that with collarbone injuries.
Colston caught six passes for 81 yards in the game.
This is Colston’s sixth NFL season. In four of his first five years he’s gone over 1,000 yards, and last year he was the team leader with 84 catches for 1,023 yards.
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How do you come back from a broken collarbone in four weeks?
ugh. exactly what we need.
He will be the Marques of Ward Six.
Lance Moore’s value goes even higher now, should be back next week. Deeper sleeper Addrian Arrington has the talent and skill-set to assume his role, but Meachem will probably get the first look.
Bummer, but Drew does like spreading the rock around.
noooooooooooooooooo my fantasy team, in all seriousness though, i hope he gets better, colston is a good story and class act
Huh, didn’t seem him get injured in the game.
Ask Charles Rogers how easy it is to come back from a collarbone as a WR.
Not that Colston is C Rog. I just hope he recovers better. Less weed might help knit those bones faster.
And the Robert Meachem fantasy gold mine is now open for buisness
maybe they’ll actually start using their arsenal of RBs?
That’s too bad. Only 4 weeks?? Didn’t Romo miss 8 games last year with the same injury?
Pats have saints first rounder… Loss vs chi next week and loss at Houston in week 3
Sucks for them. They don’t throw the ball 90 times to any one guy anyway, though.
redwards29a says: Sep 9, 2011 6:15 PM
How do you come back from a broken collarbone in four weeks?
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May not be a compound fracture like Romo’s.
What happen? He get punched by Woodson??
It sucks he’s out, but I’d say this affects fantasy owners more than anything. They’ve got enough talent to hold the fort till he gets back.
Just beat the Bears, OK?
yeeesh. never want to see anyone get injured. but i’m a selfish fan, whos team happens to possess NO’s first round draft pick. it looks like you just lost your version of wes welker for 1.5 months and maybe more. sure would like to see BB get an early draft pick considering the modified rookie wage scale. road to XLVI and further what up what up
Four weeks? My BS meter is pegged at a solid 9…
I don’t know, in Madden it’s usually a season ending injury….
Four weeks? It ended Romo’s season last year
He should ask Charles Rogers for advice.
I wonder when it happened? Because he made that diving grab on the last drive. If he broke it before that, he has tigerblood.
Snitches get stitches.
erin rodgers punches line judge right in the junk…….ref says “well, i must of deserved it….give gb 21 more points please
That is too bad. But boo saints! 0-16!!
whaaaa. there goes my fantasy team.
tools!
Pick up Sproles
Agreed,had him on my team too.Not the end of the,season though,that’s what your bench is for.
I hope it is really 4 weeks and not 8-10 weeks.. Good thing is that Colston has been out before and Saints still did work without him. Hope he gets back soon, he’s a class act and like someone else mentioned a great story.
thefiesty1 says:
Sep 9, 2011 6:22 PM
That’s too bad. Only 4 weeks?? Didn’t Romo miss 8 games last year with the same injury?
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The cowboys had nothing to play for basically the whole 2nd half of the season. Maybe he could’ve played if they were in the sweepstakes for a playoff spot.
Damn. Hell of a catch he made while breaking it, though.
He hurt it on the last drive with that diving catch NBC didnt catch the injury but you could tell from his reaction and he was holding his arm.
Local news reports that it is not broken.
Poor leatherface2012. You must not have much to do and your team must suck.
I wish him the best for a fast recovery. Fortunately the team has good depth at WR. He’ll be missed but not so much that it’ll kill us..
WHODAT!
Immediate boost in value to all of the saints WR’s/TE’s. May even be worth a Devery Henderson waiver wire add…
wow knew he would get injured at some point because he is every year since he’s been in the league but I dint think it would be this soon. Guess I should go pick up devery henderson now. Thanks marques aka china man aka the big injury
He did it on that diving catch near the end of the game.. I heard the name Donnie Avery mentioned a few times on NFL Radio as a possible replacement..
randy moss, the saints are on the line…
Charles Rogers called, he said four weeks means two years in NFL speak.
I broke my collarbone too and 4 weeks is crazy. 6 weeks if he’s lucky but it takes a good 10 weeks before it starts feeling right again.
any time a saint gets hurt i scream. who dat aint going to play for tem saints on sunday. saints atlanta carolina suck it
6 weeks is where you can work it. Surprisingly the healed spot is stronger after it knits………………Mentally he’ll think about it!
If this injury lingers, Terrell Owens will be ready in a few weeks. Just sayin.
Just so everyone knows he was injured on the second to last play of the game on a diving catch
Looks the saints won’t be “marching in”…
So sad
I’d love to know why I’ve been repeatedly censored from saying I’m sorry the guy broke his collarbone while having a great game against the Packers. Bizarre.
just watched the replay, it was on that 2 min. drive at the end of the game.
Dude caught a deep ball and started holding his shoulder area….
But get this, Dude played through it.
Broken Collarbone in a big game, in a pass first offense and the dude played through it…