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Shooting Will Sideline Chargers' Foley for Season
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Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Chargers linebacker Steve Foley will miss the season after being shot near his suburban San Diego home.
Foley was placed on the non-football injured reserve list yesterday, a day after he was shot by an off-duty police officer and a week before the Chargers open at Oakland.
The outside linebacker, who was being counted on to help anchor last season's top run defense, remained hospitalized in stable condition, according to his agent, David Levine.
Because it wasn't a football injury, the Chargers were letting Levine provide medical updates.
But Levine said information remained sketchy, and his access to Foley had been limited. On Sunday, Levine said he was told Foley was shot three times, in the arm, leg and chest. Yesterday, he said he wasn't certain where Foley was shot.
Based on the medical information he was given, Chargers General Manager A.J. Smith decided to put Foley on non-football injured reserve.
"I can't reveal all of that information except that I had enough information that I had to make a football decision," Smith said. "I had to ask, 'What's the timetable?' We felt in the best interest of him and the team, that he would be out of action for the year."
Foley was at Sharp Memorial Hospital. He was visited briefly yesterday by Coach Marty Schottenheimer. Trainer James Collins and the Chargers' security director, Dick Lewis, also were seen at the hospital.
Kathy Gambito, Sharp Memorial's marketing director, said she couldn't comment because there wasn't a patient registered under the name Steve Foley.
ยท COWBOYS: Terrell Owens sounded confident that he will be over his hamstring injury and in the starting lineup when Dallas faces the Jaguars in Jacksonville on Sunday.
"I feel great," he said. "I'm ready to go."
