Report: Chargers RB Ryan Mathews Expected To Miss 4-5 Weeks With MCL Sprain

Update:

Ian Rapoport reports that Chargers RB Ryan Mathews is expected to miss four or five weeks with an MCL sprain.

• Rapoport adds that Mathews remains hopeful he can be back even sooner than this timeline.

We’ll have more updates regarding Mathews as the news is available.

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ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that Chargers RB Ryan Mathews is scheduled to undergo an MRI on injured knee after he was forced to leave Sunday’s game on a cart.

According to Schefter, the concern right now for the Chargers is that Mathews has a sprained MCL.

Mathews was attempting to recover a fumble when he had a player roll up on his legs. Danny Woodhead and Donald Brown handled the workload with Mathews out of the lineup.

Mathews is in a contract year, so he really has a lot riding on this season. The good news is that we’re discussing his MCL and not his ACL. Players can come back in a few weeks from an MCL, but we’ll have to see what the MRI reveals in the coming days.