A recent MRI revealed that Chiefs outside linebacker Justin Houston has a hyperextended left knee, head athletic trainer Rick Burkholder announced Wednesday.
Houston left the Chiefs’ 30-22 win over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday because of the injury, and Chiefs coach Andy Reid said afterward that initial tests revealed might have re-injured his posterior cruciate ligament in the knee, which he tore in January 2014.
But on Wednesday, Burkholder said Houston’s most recent injury was not quite that serious.
“With the hyperextended knee, you get some soft tissue damage in the back of your knee, and some of the ligaments and tendons and soft tissue get stretched out,” Burkholder said.