{"id":132244,"date":"2025-06-15T16:33:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T16:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/132244\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T16:33:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T16:33:32","slug":"saints-wr-chris-olave-not-worried-after-unlucky-concussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/132244\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints WR Chris Olave ‘not worried’ after ‘unlucky’ concussions"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Saints wide receiver Chris Olave<\/a> missed nine games in 2024 and played fewer than 10 snaps in two others after suffering two concussions.<\/p>\n

The Nov. 3 concussion<\/a> caused him to miss the final eight games of the season. He returned to the practice field in December but never participated in a game to close the campaign.<\/p>\n

“It was tough, man, at first; I ain’t never really sat out that long,” Olave said on Wednesday, via The Associated Press<\/a>. “That was really my first major injury. … Just not being able to go and practice and go to meetings with my guys was the worst part, but I feel like I’m ready. I was training and lifting and everything in December. So, I feel like I’m good.”<\/p>\n

Olave’s first two seasons were sensational, generating 1,000-plus yards in each campaign and proving an elite route runner. However, he’s suffered at least four known concussions in his three seasons — one in 2022 and one in 2023 before last year’s two. He consulted with specialists after the latest head injury.<\/p>\n

“They said I was OK back in December when they cleared me. It was just unlucky situations I was being put in,” Olave said. “God’s got me at the end of the day. I’m not worried about nothing. So, just got to go out there 100% and be ready.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Orleans Saints wide receiver Chris Olave missed nine games in 2024 and played fewer than 10 snaps…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2076],"tags":[1227,6000,7,896,55,2572,2571,88,6,609,4267,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-132244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-chris-olave","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-new-orleans","12":"tag-new-orleans-saints","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanssaints","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-no-minute","18":"tag-offseason-news","19":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114688347771986431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}