With the road to the playoffs completely shut down for the Carolina Panthers as they entered Week 18, their season finale against the (also eliminated) New Orleans Saints may have been perceived as a “meaningless” one. But you can’t tell Marquis Haynes Sr. that.
On Tuesday, the fifth-year defensive end revealed that he played in the closing contest despite being diagnosed with a grade 2 MCL sprain—an injury that can take multiple weeks to heal.
