Despite being in a significant amount of pain and his team being out of the playoff race, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees wants to play Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
An MRI revealed that the right foot injury Brees sustained on Monday night against the Detroit Lions is a torn plantar fascia, NFL Network's Albert Breer reported. The plantar fascia is the flat band of tissue that connects the heel bone to the base of the toes.
On Wednesday, Saints coach Sean Payton told reporters that Brees is day-to-day. However, Ian Rapoport, also of NFL Network, tweeted the following, making it sound as though it will be a long shot for Brees to suit up against the Jaguars.
As a sidenote, Payton told Jacksonville reporters on a conference call that he expects both he and Brees to be back in New Orleans next season. That would be a surprise, particularly for Payton. The Saints' defense is a mess, and unlikely to get markedly better in one offseason, and if he opted out of his deal with the team, Payton would be a hot commodity. It's not hard to imagine a marriage between Payton and the Indianapolis Colts, which would pair an offensive-minded coach with one of the best young quarterbacks in the game, Andrew Luck.
It seems unlikely that New Orleans would part ways with Brees, but the team and its franchise quarterback will have to do some major negotiating – Brees' salary cap number for 2016, the final year of his contract, is $30 million, and the Saints could use the relief.
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