Oregon Ducks tight end Pharaoh Brown remained hospitalized in Salt Lake City as of Sunday night after he suffered a season-ending non-contact leg injury late in the Ducks' 51-27 victory over the Utah Utes.
Per Andrew Greif of The Oregonian, "Brown was in stable condition Sunday evening in the surgical intensive care unit at the University of Utah Hospital, according to a nursing supervisor."
Oregon Ducks head coach Mark Helfrich was quite somber on Sunday evening as he revealed to the assembled press that Brown wasn't able to travel home with the team due to his injury.
"Going forward it's a long process but that dude is a competitive guy and it's already galvanized our team," Helfrich said, via Greif's article on Sunday night. "We walk into the locker room last night coming off the field and it was an unbelievable situation, a tough situation and just reveals more and more about our guys that we like."
Helfrich added that UO associate director of athletic medicine Kim Terrell is scheduled to fly to Salt Lake City on Monday.
"He needs to go through a couple of procedures here in the next, again it's a generalized three-to-seven days approximately, to get as best a foundation as can be had going forward for his long-term prognosis, which we don't know at this point at all," Helfrich said. "He's out for the season. Obviously a short-term meaningless thing really at this point in a lot of ways but he's there, has a ton of support."
"... Unfortunately that was a significant injury. If you're a prayerful person, a thoughtful person obviously our thoughts and hearts are with Pharaoh as well as a couple Utah guys who had unbelievably significant non-contact injuries in that game."
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