Saints' Lasco taken off field in ambulance with spine injury

There was a scary scene at New Era Field on Sunday as New Orleans Saints running back Daniel Lasco exited the game against the Buffalo Bills on a stretcher in an ambulance.

Nearly the entire #Saints team rallied around Daniel Lasco before he was loaded into the ambulance pic.twitter.com/SIDGd2xVEK

- Nick Veronica (@NickVeronica) November 12, 2017

Lasco, who is primarily used as a special teamer, was down on the field following a kickoff in the second quarter. The second-year pro struck a Bills player with his head pointed down before falling to the ground.

The Saints released a statement on Lasco at halftime, according to Nick Underhill of The Advocate:

Daniel Lasco is being transported to a local hospital with a spine injury. Lasco has feeling in his extremities and Saints team doctor Michael Hartman is attending to him at the hospital.

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