Miles Capers injury: Vanderbilt EDGE stretchered off following injury

The Vanderbilt Commodores suffered a serious injury on Saturday night in their game against Kentucky. Vandy EDGE rusher Miles Capers was down on the field for several minutes. He was tended to by the medical staff from both teams.

Both the spine board and the stretcher were brought out onto the field as the situation appeared very serious. Play was stopped for several minutes before he was eventually loaded onto the stretcher and wheeled off the field in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Capers eventually headed to the University of Kentucky medical center, where he was tested and evaluated.

Miles Capers returned to the Vanderbilt sidelines

“He has returned to the Vanderbilt sideline. Obviously not gonna return tonight. But he’s walking around talking to all of his teammates. I just passed his mom and dad on the sidelines,” Cole Cubelic of the SEC Network noted on the sidelines of Kroger Field in Lexington.

Following the game, Vanderbilt head coach Clark Lea reported in his press conference that Capers suffered a neck injury and that he was “okay”. He also thanked the medical staffs for their assistance and to Kentucky head coach Mark Stoops for checking on the player.

Capers had to leave the game after taking a hit to his head. It was on a second quarter drive for Kentucky, where Capers and Bryce Cowan combined for a tackle of UK running back Demie Sumo-Karngbaye and colliding heads.

The helmet-to-helmet contact left Capers on the ground for more than five minutes as members of both the Vanderbilt and Kentucky medical teams tended to him. Medical officials made their way over to Capers and head coach Clark Lea, who was among the first people to arrive at Capers’ side on the field.