New Orleans Saints’ star quarterback Drew Brees might have to spend more time on the sidelines than it was initially expected. According to the team’s head coach Sean Payton, the team currently doesn’t have a timetable on when Brees could return from his injury.
Brees hadn’t played since Week 10 when he suffered cracked ribs and a collapsed lung in a game against the San Francisco 49ers. Back then, the 41-year-old quarterback said he should get back on the field in “no time” while the Saints were also cautiously optimistic about his recovery.
More than three weeks later, however, Brees doesn’t seem like he’ll be back on the field anytime soon.
“I honestly wouldn’t be able to give you a time frame,” Payton told reporters when asked about his starting signal-caller. “He’s like a handful of the other guys that are down there working their tails off to get back healthy, 100 percent, and we’ll kind of see when that is.”
In Brees’ absence, New Orleans turned to their “Swiss-army knife” Taysom Hill at the quarterback position and were quite successful so far. In three games Hill played under center, Saints are 3-0 and have beaten their opponents with a 16-point margin on average.
The Saints are currently leading the NFC with 10-2 and have already clinched the playoff spot. This allows them to take a cautious approach with Brees and puts them in no hurry to get the veteran back on the field.
