It might be weeks before Jaguars wide receiver Cecil Shorts gets back on the field.
But he said he was “selfish” for trying to play a week ago.
Shorts aggravated a previous hamstring problem during the loss to the Chargers, and pulled up on a play which turned into an interception.
'“I probably shouldn’t have done that – that was selfish on my part to try and play through it,” Shorts said, via Ryan O’Halloran of the Florida Times-Union. “I felt [the injury] the play before the interception and was thinking, ‘OK, TV timeout, let’s see how it feels.’ So I’m jumping around and doing a little bit.
“But I went in motion and I pulled up and couldn’t come back to the ball. I hung my team out to dry. That hurt me because I let the team down and gave [San Diego] three points. That was definitely one me.”
This hamstring injury is his third since the start of camp, and will at least cost him this week’s game against the Steelers. His previous two each cost him two weeks of game time (in the preseason and regular season), and he said this one could be the same.
He has just seven catches on the season, and his lack of availability is one of the things that has bogged down their offense this season, beyond the quarterback decision.