In a devastating blow for the Baltimore Ravens, pass-rusher Kyle Van Noy suffered an eye injury during the season-opening kickoff against the Kansas City Chiefs. The injury turned out to be a fractured orbital bone, leaving Van Noy sidelined with no clear timetable for a return.
Van Noy expressed his frustration with how the Chiefs’ medical staff handled his injury, calling it “super unprofessional” on his podcast with NFL veteran Gerald McCoy called McCoy & Noy. The Ravens linebacker criticized the lack of urgency from the Chiefs’ trainers, stating, “I was disappointed in the way the training staff of the Chiefs handled the situation. When you get hurt, especially something that could be serious like mine was, you’re supposed to rely on the team’s training staff or their doctors.”
He continued, “And they took an entire quarter to get down to talk to me in the locker room. Which, to me, is unacceptable, because then you start thinking, what if I was trying to go back in the game? What if I was really, really hurt? Mine happened to be moderate but it still was serious because it’s the eye, and your expectation of someone to be down there as the training staff asks them to be down there, would have had a little bit more urgency. The way it took time was super unprofessional to me.”
Van Noy went on to mention that the Chiefs players themselves rated the training staff poorly in the most recent NFL Players Association report card, giving them an “F” grade. He added that he would have given his own performance an “F” as well.
After losing Van Noy for the remainder of the game, the Ravens suffered a 27-20 defeat to the Chiefs, despite a valiant effort led by quarterback Lamar Jackson in a late rally. The Ravens will now have to regroup and adjust without one of their key defensive players as they look to bounce back in the next game.