Virtually every day during the NFL’s training camp/preseason period, at least one player leaves the field on a cart because of an injury. Sometimes, they’re back on the field the next day. Sometimes, they don’t return until the next season.

Denver Broncos wide receiver Jerry Jeudy was carted off the field on Thursday during a joint practice with the Los Angeles Rams, leaving the NFL team and its fans in the waiting period between injury and diagnosis.

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“It’s a hamstring,” Broncos coach Sean Payton said after practice. “We’ll get an MRI, kind of see where he’s at with it. … Hopefully, it’s not anything long-term.”

Denver will kick off its 2023 regular-season schedule on Sept. 10, when the Las Vegas Raiders visit for an AFC West rivalry game.

Jeudy was the Broncos’ leading receiver in 2022, when he posted career highs of 67 receptions for 972 yards and six touchdowns in 15 games.

With 18 receptions for 309 yards in Denver’s final three games, Jeudy nearly reached 1,000 receiving yards for the season, likely kept from the milestone by an ankle injury suffered on the first snap against the Tennessee Titans on Nov. 13 that caused him to miss the rest of that game and the next two, too.

Jeudy was an All-American at Alabama – receiving consensus status in 2018 and repeating as a member of the American Football Coaches Association’s first team for the 2019 season.

Since entering the NFL as the 15th pick in the 2020 draft, Jeudy has 157 receptions for 2,295 yards and nine touchdowns in 41 games.

During the offseason, the Broncos picked up their fifth-year option on Jeudy’s rookie contract, which guarantees the wide receiver will receive $12.987 million for the 2024 season.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.