Giants Rookie OLB Kayvon Thibodeaux Exits Preseason Game with Knee Injury

Thibodeaux appears to have escaped a serious knee injury, but tests are likely coming to confirm.

The New York Giants are holding their breath that rookie edge rusher Kayvon Thibodeaux, who was forced from the preseason game against the Cincinnati Bengals with a knee injury, won't have to miss much, if any time.

Thibodeaux, the fifth overall pick in this year's draft, was injured in the second quarter when Bengals tight end Thaddeus Moss blocked Thibodeaux on a pass rush. 

Kayvon Thibodeaux down after this cut block…. pic.twitter.com/RXbOGCDs8n

— Talkin’ Giants (@TalkinGiants) August 22, 2022

The rookie immediately fell to the ground grabbing his right knee. He was immediately attended to by the Giants' medical staff, with a cart coming out to get him shortly after that, but Thibodeaux waved the cart off and walked off the field under his own power. 

He was examined further by the doctors in the blue medical tent for a few minutes before emerging and walking along the sideline. 

Kayvon Thibodeaux’s shocked face and duck underneath is perfect metaphor for #Giants initial reaction to him on turf and then breathing sigh of relief to seeing him laughing and joking on sideline after going through testing in the medical tent pic.twitter.com/IOJ5D7BJZp

— Ryan Dunleavy (@rydunleavy) August 22, 2022

Thibodeaux was seen laughing and loose on the sideline after emerging from the tent. He remained on the sideline for a little longer before heading back to the locker room, where his evening--and perhaps his first NFL preseason--finished.

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