After Sunday’s special game for both him and the team, Carolina Panthers wide receiver Curtis Samuel remarked that “the linemen were getting people up off the ground.”
It was Samuel’s first time playing in the regular season since Week 9 of the 2017 season, during which he suffered a nasty season-ending ankle injury, right as he seemed to be breaking out. The rookie second-rounder had 45 receiving yards in the game when a Dolphins defensive back fell onto his ankle in the end zone, fracturing it and thwarting Samuel’s first career touchdown.
He more than made up for it on Sunday.