Chiefs receiver Tyreek Hill was transported to the hospital in Jacksonville with a shoulder injury.He will not require surgery Nick Allegretti Jersey nfl draft , according to a source, but Hill will miss some time. He is expected to be out at least a couple of weeks.Chiefs head athletic trainer Rick Burkholder explained the injury after Sunday’s game.“Tyreek Hill had an injury in the game where he landed on his shoulder,” Burkholder said, via Ian Rapoport of the NFL. “He had a sternal clavicular joint injury, which is where your clavicle comes into your sternum. Those can be injured coming out the front, up top or in the back. If it goes posteriorly or back, it becomes a medical issue for us, so that we worry that there’s more problems. His came back posteriorly, and he didn’t have any medical issues, but we still transported him to the Baptist Medical Center [in Jacksonville], and we turned his care over to Brett Frykberg, who is an ortho-trauma physician. Scott Mullen From China Nick Allegretti Jersey , one of our physicians, is with him. He’s from the Kansas University Health System. He’s being treated there to reduce the dislocation or the injury. We don’t have anymore update on that. This is a good time to realize that the National Football League under [NFL executive vice president] Jeff Miller, [NFL chief medical officer] Allen Sills go to great lengths to put in emergency medical, emergency action plans for stadiums like this, and because the Jaguars had a plan, and we followed their plan, he was able to get care without any complication. That transportation is under the care of an orth-trauma physician now. We’ll give you an update in the next day or two.”Rapoport said it’s the same injury Packers receiver Jake Kumerow had last season. Kumerow missed two months. One of the items often overlooked during the course of an NFL regular season is potential improvement from the inside. We have become so transfixed on how to better the team by trading for one piece or another that we sometimes miss what is happening right in front of us.Sure, there are many issues with the Chiefs defense right now — but one of the few positives in their 31-24 loss to the Houston Texans came from the play of Juan Thornhill, who had four tackles and an interception in the game.Let’s get the obvious out of the way: the interception was on fourth-and-1 from the KC 40, so Thornhill probably should have batted the pass down instead of catching it. But isolated from down and distance, the athleticism Thornhill showed to make the play was incredible to watch.“I’ll be perfectly honest with you: when he caught it, I was fired up for him to catch it Long Sleeve Nick Allegretti Jersey , too,” said Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo of the play. “Then quickly, when I realized where we were, we now had the ball [and it had been] fourth down. My guess is that it would have taken a real savvy veteran that’s been back there for a long time [so] that it all registers to knock it down. I think it was a really good job covering. “They caught us in man. They took a shot. I don’t think that’s what they really wanted to do, but they saw an opportunity — and Juan took it away. So I was happy for him on that.”Pro Football Focus called Thornhill the Chiefs’ highest-graded defensive player for his efforts in the game. Asked about what changed, Thornhill explained that his mind has finally caught up the speed of the pro game.“At first, it was like I was out there thinking a little bit,” said Thornhill. “I wasn’t playing fast and then last game, I felt like I was pretty comfortable and the game was just like slowing down for me, and I actually felt it, and I started to see a lot more, and that just allowed me to make plays on the football.”Thornhill felt that accumulating six games under Spagnuolo made the difference.“I came into that game feeling a lot different Nick Allegretti Kansas City Chiefs Jerseys ,” said Thornhill. “I feel like I knew our defense a lot more. I feel more confident in everything, so that was the biggest thing—just going into that game with more confidence that I have usually have because I feel like I know our defense.”Thornhill’s fellow safety Tyrann Mathieu, who discussed the recent adversity on Tuesday, was brought on to not only perform in his own right but also help rookies like Thornhill come along faster than they otherwise might have. According to Thornhill, that is working.“I just felt like it was time,” he added. “Getting the repetitions in-game and also being able to play next to guys like Tyrann— he’s been into this, so I’ve been following in his footsteps, and he’s been leading me in the right direction.”The Chiefs travel to Denver to play the Broncos on Thursday night. They won’t have defensive tackle Chris Jones and they will likely be without cornerback Kendall Fuller.But let’s not overlook that they will have this version of Thornhill — the one who said he’s flipped the switch.