Neck injury could end career of NFL Seahawks half-corner at 25

Four years after joining the NFL under the name of Mr. Irrelevant, Kalan Reed could end up playing football.

The Seattle Seahawks cornerback is injured in the neck during the playoff game of Week 3 against the Los Angeles Chargers. according to Ian Rapoport of the NFL networkthe injury is probably serious enough to end Reed's career.

Quoting Reed's agent, Harold Lewis, Rapoport said Thursday that the fourth-year defensive back had suffered damage to his third and fourth vertebrae while he was playing against the Chargers – a injury that would put him " seriously in danger if he played again ". Seahawks coach Pete Carroll told the media after the match in the third week of Seattle that Reed would meet an injury specialist this week.

Reed, 25, apparently had only six shots in the Seahawks' Week 2 pre-season game, but he was considered an off-season candidate for the corner-half of the Seahawks. ;team. The 253nd and final pick of the NFL draft in 2016, he began his career with the Tennessee Titans from Southern Miss, where he spent his first three seasons. He appeared in four games as a rookie and three the next year, before landing on the injured reserve with a broken foot in 2018 and ending the season with Seattle 's active lineup.

Reed had just been placed in IR for the 2019 season after his neck injury.