Jaguars wide receiver Marqise Lee had a hard time staying healthy during his rookie season and his second year isn’t getting off to a much better start.
Lee did not take part in the Jaguars’ first OTA session on Tuesday because of a knee injury he suffered during one of the team’s earlier workouts. After watching nagging injuries limit Lee last year, coach Gus Bradley said that the team would take a cautious route with the 2014 second-round pick.
“Marqise banged up his knee a little bit right in the middle of Phase Two,” Bradley said, via the Florida Times-Union. “He’s more day-to-day or week-to-week. I know he wants to get back here, but we’re being smart with him. We’ll see if he makes it back before the minicamp or not.”
In addition to injuries, Jaguars wide receiver coach Jerry Sullivan said recently that the team gave Lee too much too soon as a rookie. The knee injury will ensure that no one’s overloading Lee right now, although there’s not much substitute for the on-field work that Lee needs to do to grow as a player.