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Panthers HC Dave Canales on LT Ikem Ekwonu: 'There's something going on with his knee'
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The Carolina Panthers provided a potentially worrisome injury update on one of their key players this afternoon.
Left tackle Ikem Ekwonu was one of three non-participants in Wednesday's practice , just ahead of the team's huge Week 16 showdown against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers . Head coach Dave Canales was asked about Ekwonu after the session, and didn't sound too sure about his status moving forward.
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"He made it through the game, he was battling out there," he stated. "And we can kinda sense that there was some stuff going on. But in the post-game evaluation, and started doing tests on him, there's something in there. There's something going on with his knee. So we had to make sure we took care of him today.
"He's gonna be day to day. We're gonna look at him tomorrow, see if we can get him out there to practice. But we're not really sure right now. We'll go through it, make sure we do all the testing that we need to and do the right thing by Ickey."
Canales added that Yosh Nijman , who took the first-team reps at left tackle during practice, would start in place of Ekwonu if needed.
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