Injuries might be part of the game, but you sure don't want them to be a part of the last preseason game. Which is why the highlight of this finale on Thursday night in Carolina came at 9:36 p.m., when television cameras showed No. 1 pick Derrick Harmon sitting on the bench between Cam Heyward and T.J. Watt wearing street clothes and a huge smile.

You see, earlier in the broadcast there had been another shot of Harmon. In that one, he was in uniform, sitting on a cart and about to be taken from the field after sustaining an apparent knee injury, with a towel draped over his head hiding the anguish that seemed certain to be etched on his face. In his postgame presser, Coach Mike Tomlin said Harmon had suffered a knee sprain, the severity of which was to be evaluated.

An update on Harmon's

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