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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) \u2014 New Orleans Saints quarterback Derek Carr injured his left hand late in the fourth quarter of Sunday\u2019s 14-11 victory<\/a> over the New York Giants when he went airborne while trying for a first down and crashed to the turf.<\/p>\n

Carr tried to leap over a Giants tackler and landed at the New Orleans 39-yard line, extending his non-throwing hand to break his fall. He was on the turf for a minute or two before walking to the medical tent. He was examined and slowly walked to an area where X-rays are done.<\/p>\n

\u201cA phenomenal effort trying to make a first down,\u201d interim coach Darren Rizzi said of the play that happened with the Saints leading 14-11 and just under four minutes remaining.<\/p>\n

Carr missed three games earlier this season with an oblique injury. Tight end Juwan Johnson, who had a TD catch on Sunday, said it looks like the QB will miss more time. Carr was not available to speak to reporters after the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s just been having a rough go. We\u2019re behind him,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cHe\u2019s still Derek Carr, aside from the football field. You just have to be there for him, emotionally, spiritually and physically.\u201d<\/p>\n

The injury could hurt the already slim playoff hopes of the Saints (5-8), who trail Tampa Bay by two games and Atlanta by one in the weak NFC South.<\/p>\n

Rizzi was asked whether Carr would enter the concussion protocol after his jarring impact with the turf, but the coach could not confirm that.<\/p>\n

Johnson said Carr had told teammates it was time to lay it on the line before he got hurt.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s the true example of laying out on the line. The dude just cares about his team a lot,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

Carr finished 20 of 31 for 219 yards with an 11-yard touchdown pass to Johnson in the third quarter. He also led a 98-yard drive that Kendre Miller capped with a 6-yard run in the first quarter as New Orleans won for the third time in four games under Rizzi, who took over last month when Dennis Allen was fired.<\/p>\n

Jake Haener replaced Carr and handed off to Miller, who was stopped on third-and-1 by Giants linebacker Micah McFadden. The Saints punted.<\/p>\n

After an interception by New Orleans\u2019 Demario Davis, Haener went three-and-out on the next series. The Giants got the ball back with 1:21 to play and came within a thumb of forcing overtime.<\/p>\n

New York drove to the Saints 12-yard line and defensive tackle Bryan Bresee got a thumb on Graham Gano\u2019s game-tying 35-yard field goal attempt.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) \u2014 New Orleans Saints quarterback Derek Carr injured his left hand late in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[14209,13212,6838,496,7,6652,6846,6839,4083,5556,8351,896,55,56,2572,2571,6,498,397,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-180666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-bryan-bresee","9":"tag-darren-rizzi","10":"tag-demario-davis","11":"tag-derek-carr","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-graham-gano","14":"tag-jake-haener","15":"tag-juwan-johnson","16":"tag-kendre-miller","17":"tag-la-state-wire","18":"tag-micah-mcfadden","19":"tag-new-orleans","20":"tag-new-orleans-saints","21":"tag-new-york-giants","22":"tag-neworleans","23":"tag-neworleanssaints","24":"tag-nfl","25":"tag-nfl-football","26":"tag-saints","27":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114794610531542331","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180666","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=180666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}