Wide Receiver · New Orleans Saints

Chris Olave

No. 12 · 5th season

Chris Olave missed the last game of the year. The reason matters more than the game.

There are injury reports, and then there are the ones that stop you mid-scroll. A blood clot in the lung is not a hamstring. It is not a sprained ankle. It is the kind of thing that puts a football season in perspective very quickly.

Olave is a wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints, and the details of what he has been through on the field in recent seasons make this harder to sit with. The specific contours of his path are not part of this report, but a lung clot at a young age is serious in any life, let alone one that depends on the body performing at its absolute limit.

He missed New Orleans's final game of the season — a Week 18 matchup against the Atlanta Falcons — and as of this writing has not been fully cleared by doctors. That last part is the one that lingers. The season is over. The clearance still has not come.

A football question becomes something else entirely when the answer involves a person's health. Whatever Olave's next chapter looks like, it starts with getting well — and that is the only thing that matters right now.

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