Packers rookie takes brutal hit, has to be stretchered off the field

It may just be pre-season, but it's still football. And that means, it can be brutal.

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Green Bay Packers rookie Malachi Dupre took a brutal hit from Philadelphia Eagles safety Tre Sullivan in Thursday night's game, and he didn't get up right away.

Here's the hit on Malachi Dupre: pic.twitter.com/agGRO5LNaA

— Zach Kruse (@zachkruse2) August 11, 2017

NFL analyst Ross Tucker had this to say:

Packers WR Malachi Dupre just took most vicious hit I've seen in a long time. Good gracious. He's still down. Prayers up.

— Ross Tucker (@RossTuckerNFL) August 11, 2017

Players from both teams took a knee:

Both Eagles & Packers on 1 knee as Packers rookie WR Malachi Dupre is attended to after Eagles rookie safety Tre Sullivan hit him pic.twitter.com/DULXomdU20

— Jeff Skversky 6abc (@JeffSkversky) August 11, 2017

Dupree, a 6'3, 196 pound wide receiver, was selected in the seventh round out of LSU.

The Packers announced that he has feeling in his extremities and was taken to a hospital for further evaluation.

WR Malachi Dupre has movement and feeling in all his extremities. He has been taken to a hospital for further evaluation #PHIvsGB

— Green Bay Packers (@packers) August 11, 2017