Hey everyone, Chris Carter here from the Locked-on Steelers podcast.

The Steelers win their preseason finale against the Carolina Panthers 19 to 10,

but the big news was Derek Harmon, who was injured during this game, and it looked scary.

We give you the insight on what we saw and what we've learned.

We also have Dr. Karina Maharaja joining me to talk about knee injuries and what could be the case there.

That's all here on the Locked on Steelers podcast.

Let's get into it.

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Like this, if you enjoyed, subscribe to this channel to get all of your daily Monday through Friday episodes on the Pittsburgh Steelers, including our bonus content, sometimes here on the locked-on Steelers podcast. All right, Steelers fans, we won't talk much about the game at first. The big news, of course, was Derek Harmon's injury, which was very scary in the moment because Derek Harmon went down.

What didn't look bad at, you know, no one really noticed it live. But the biggest thing was when it was reported from people who were there at the game that he went into the blue medical tent. And then shortly after that, you see on the broadcast, I was not in Carolina. Of course, Isburgh you see darry carman on a cart looking very unhappy uh with a towel over his head being carted off the off the

field uh into the steelers locker room that was a scary sight and it was noted that he was out pretty

quickly after that by the steelers saying that he had knee injury and he was out for the game of course

the worst is thought what's to be going on there. I was going to say, okay, let's wait and see what happens. Fortunately, it does seem like the Steelers dodged a bullet. Derek Harmon, someone I think was during the third quarter, came out of the Steelers locker room, walked on his own power, said with a limp a little bit, but walked on his own power, got to the Steelers sideline, which was on the up other side of the field from the Steelers locker room, sat down. The broadcast caught him joking and smiling and laughing with Cam Hayward and T.J. Watt on the Steelers bench. That's a good sign that he's not down in the dumps. Also, I did not see a knee brace on him,

which if he was wearing one, that might have been assigned for a more serious injury. And so the question now, though, is what does he have? Well, Mike Tomlin, after the game did explain he has a knee sprain to, he's quote, a knee sprain of some description, which means we do not know what kind of a knee sprain this is.

However, during the game, I went to my trusted doctor that we bring on this show, Dr. Karina Maharaja. We also have Dr. Hamadio, but we were able to get Dr. Karina and Dr. K. We've had her on in years past when there's been a big injury. We wanted to know what is the path to recovery what's

the severity and so this was before we had mike thomas description of a knee sprain so take the

notice of that we were still learning this at the time but i did did have an interview with here which

i'll share with you here on this show so that you can see her thoughts of just what she saw what she

think it is.

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