Carolina Panthers running back Jonathon Brooks spoke with reporters for the first time since Sunday’s devastating development.
The rookie, in the first quarter of this past weekend’s loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, re-tore the ACL in his right knee on his very first carry of the game. Brooks, of course, missed the first 10 games of the year while completing the recovery from his first tear—which occurred in November of 2023.
“It happened on the cut . . . I don’t know, it just happened,” he stated in the locker room after Thursday’s practice. “I didn’t think, off of the cut, that it would’ve happened. But it did.
“There’s nothing you can do looking back on it, so I look onward and forward and know that God just has a greater situation for me ahead.”
Panthers RB Jonathon Brooks said his right knee gave out on the cut. Nothing he could have done differently. pic.twitter.com/fk0QbZR8xv
— David Newton (@DNewtonespn) December 12, 2024
The Panthers placed Brooks on injured reserve this past Tuesday.
