Steelers receiver Hines Ward left last night’s AFC Championship game in the first quarter with a right knee injury and didn’t return, but he said he doesn’t envision the injury keeping him out of Super Bowl XLIII. It was a hard hitting defensive battle in last night game.

Ward told the press the injury is only “a little sprain” and he will return in time for the Super Bowl

“It was a typical, hard-hitting, physical game. It’s the way every Baltimore-Pittsburgh game is. Sometimes guys get hit so hard, you don’t know if they’re going to get up.”