Rookie DE Trajan Jeffcoat carted off during second Saints training practice

The New Orleans Saints have been dealing with injuries throughout the offseason, as has every team, and this issue was exacerbated Wednesday with a hamstring injury to second-year running back Kendre Miller. This continued into Thursday as rookie defensive end Trajan Jeffcoat was carted off the practice field with an elbow injury. He played college football at Arkansas and Missouri.

This is a tough break for Jeffcoat and the Saints, as there was a reasonable chance that he could have made the roster. The severity of the injury will determine the next course of action, but between the time he spent on the ground receiving assistance and needing a trainer’s cart to help him off the field, it sounds like a little more than a minor injury.

Jeffcoat was one of eight East-West Shrine Bowl players in this rookie class to be added by the Saints, along with:

• WR Bub Means
• DT Khristian Boyd
• OL Josiah Ezirim
• OL Kyle Hergel
• TE Dallin Holker
• RB Jacob Kibodi
• P Matthew Hayball

Hopefully the injury to Jeffcoat is one that allows him to recover and return later this preseason, but we’ll keep an eye out for an update on his condition.