"Shoulder or a pec" - Maro Itoje injury update after he limped off against Bath

As Eddie Jones watched from the Recreation Ground stands, the 26-year-old second-row was worryingly replaced with an upper body injury.

Itoje got up from taking a double tackle after 47 minutes, and immediately felt the area between shoulder and neck gingerly.

On the injury, Saracens boss Mark McCall said: “I am not sure if Maro is a shoulder or a pec. We are just trying to find out how serious it is."

Pressed on the severity of the injury, he added: "I'd really not want to speculate."

Bath’s England wing Anthony Watson also went off, after a tweak to the left knee.

Their rugby director Stuart Hooper said after the game: “It’s definitely his knee, but I don’t think it is too bad. I think he is all right.”

Meanwhile, Exeter’s Cowan-Dickie also limped off with an ankle problem at Wasps on Saturday.

It is commonly known that Itoje is the cousin of Bath's loosehead prop Beno Obano. However Gloucester speedster Ollie Thorley is also technically Itoje’s cousin after his grandfather re-married a Nigerian woman who is the Saracens lock’s aunt.

His full name is much more of a mouthful. The lock was born Oghenemaro Miles Itoje in Camden, London on 28 October 1994 to Nigerian parents.

The current England star writes poetry in his free time and tried his hand at modelling too. Maro starred alongside Amelia Windsor, cousin of Prince Harry, on a sports luxe-themed Tatler shoot for their October 2018 issue. Rumours in the press followed that the pair had begun dating, but this was never confirmed or denied by the second-row.

Itoje is called 'The Pearl' by Saracens and England team-mates for a perceived preciousness to the sides he plays in.

As a schoolboy, Itoje played several sports including basketball, football, rugby and athletics, representing England at U17 level in shot put.