Vikings QB Kirk Cousins gives gruesome insight into how it felt when he suffered season-ending Achilles tear vs the Packers: ‘I went to press down and I got nothing’

Kirk Cousins’ first words to doctors after suffering an Achilles tendon tear were captured on microphones, with the quarterback giving horrifying insight into the pain he was suffering.

Cousins’ 2023 campaign was cut short after he was hurt in the fourth quarter of the Vikings’ 24-10 win over Green Bay in October.

The quarterback jumped off the field, believing he had only suffered a sprain after stepping on it.

He initially told team doctors that his ankle was “shot.” Unfortunately, the diagnosis was much worse.

“When I first got hurt I didn’t think I had done anything bad because I was constantly being stepped on – it just felt like my heel was being stepped on,” he said in ‘The 2023 journey‘.

“Then I realized I couldn’t get past the sideline, so I jumped up.”

Cousins ​​added: ‘At first I thought, “Oh, it’s a sprained ankle, this is going to be a tough month during my rehab, but I’ll be able to play, I’m a pocket passer.”

“I still didn’t think I had torn anything, I still didn’t think it would be the end of the season. I just knew it was probably the end of the game.”

But microphones picked up Cousins’ immediate description of the injury to team doctors. Moments earlier he had tried to leave the pocket, but he recoiled in pain.

“I was leaving, my heel hit the ground and someone stepped on me,” he told medics.

‘I went and my heel wouldn’t budge. So it just stretched it like crazy. But I didn’t feel anything going. I went down and I got nothing.”

Cousins ​​later admitted, “I was a little bit in denial about the injury…what I’m feeling and they’re all the traditional signs that I had torn my Achilles tendon.”