Broncos' Aaron Patrick out for the season with torn ACL after colliding with sideline staffer

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Denver Broncos outside linebacker Aaron Patrick will be out for the remainder of the season after suffering a torn ACL during Monday night’s game against the Los Angeles Chargers when he collided with a staff member on the sideline. 

Head coach Nathaniel Hackett confirmed Patrick’s prognosis during a press conference on Tuesday. 

Aaron Patrick of the Denver Broncos lies on the ground after colliding with a sideline worker during the Los Angeles Chargers game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. (AAron Ontiveroz/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

"I think a lot of the injuries that we're having are kind of crazy from the standpoint of the amount of ACLs and so forth," Hackett said. 

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The injury came during overtime when Patrick was attempting to run Chargers wideout DeAndre Carter out of bounds on a punt return. He scrambled to the sidelines but ran into a staff member, while his left foot planted on a black carpet. 

The injury to Denver Broncos; Aaron Patrick came during overtime when he was attempting to run DeAndre Carter of the Los Angeles Chargers out of bounds on a punt return. (AAron Ontiveroz/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

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"I was very disturbed about the way the injury occurred with the carpet being on the sideline like that," Patrick’s agent told the NFL Network. "His cleat got lodged in the carpet trying to avoid the media person."

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