Broncos WR Jerry Jeudy carted off with hamstring injury - ESPN

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — It's been a bit of a cruel summer for the Denver Broncos' wide receivers, and the bad injury luck at the position continued Thursday when Jerry Jeudy was carted off the practice field with a right hamstring injury.

«It's a hamstring,'' Broncos coach Sean Payton confirmed after practice. „We'll get an MRI and see where he's at with it.''

Jeudy suffered the injury running an end-around in team drills during a joint practice with the Los Angeles Rams. Jeudy quickly grabbed his upper right leg after the play, was initially treated by the team's trainers on the field and then taken to the locker room on a cart.

He held his right leg just above the knee while riding in the cart and could put almost no weight on the injured leg when he was helped into the locker room. The Broncos' preseason finale is Saturday night against the Rams, and they open the regular season Sept. 10 against the Las Vegas Raiders.

Jeudy is now the fifth wide receiver since the start of training camp who might be forced out of the lineup for an extended period. Tim Patrick suffered a season-ending torn Achilles tendon in the first week of camp, KJ Hamler was diagnosed with a heart ailment that is being treated with medication (he was released), and second-year receiver Jalen Virgil suffered a knee injury in this past Saturday's preseason loss to the San Francisco 49ers and is now on injured reserve.

Brandon Johnson also missed several weeks of practice with a leg injury and returned to practice Thursday.

Jeudy missed three games with an ankle injury last season and had some hamstring troubles in the offseason workouts leading into the 2022 season. He was also held out of some of the Broncos' offseason work this past spring with a thigh