When Kirk Cousins rose to his feet after injuring his right foot in the fourth quarter on Oct. 29, he couldn't feel the Lambeau Field grass beneath him. He refused help getting to the sideline, hopping on his left foot while searching for symptoms that would tell him it was just another sprained ankle.
Even when he pressed his right foot into the ground and felt nothing, he hoped it perhaps because a nerve wasn't firing. "I was like, 'I'll work through that; I can play without feeling my foot,'" he said.
Minutes later in the Vikings medical tent, Cousins said Dr.