INDIANAPOLIS -- Ohio State's ironman, center Billy Price, looked like he may have suffered a very serious injury on Thursday during the bench press at the 2018 NFL Scouting Combine.

He started in every game he played for four seasons. But after just three reps on the bench, he was forced to abandon the event, grabbing at the left side of his chest.

Price, the 2017 Rimington Trophy winner, was in need of medical evaluation at a time where the next stage of his career was set to begin. But he got good news on Friday morning when the MRI results came back. He revealed that his injury was an incomplete pectoral tear, but will still get a second opinion shortly after the combine to confirm if he needs surgery or not.

"(It's) nothing that's going to force me to miss time at all, something that I'm looking forward to," Price said. "I'll be fine for the season going forward, and I should be fine going into training camp."

Price will get a second opinion within the next few days to see if surgery is needed. He was told that if surgery was needed, he will be out for about four months.

He came down to his press conference without a sling and said he experienced no bruising on the left side, which can happen with major pectoral injuries.

He was scheduled to meet with media on Thursday, but did not because of the injury.

"That's the first thing I told my agent. I said, 'We're not hiding from this. We're going straight into this and it's something that I need to address and not run from,'" Price said. "I didn't run from anything at Ohio State."

Price called the injury "a freak accident." He explained that he felt fine after the first two reps, but felt a pop after the third and racked the bar.

"I've been lifting since I was in fifth grade," Price said. "It's something that I'm very familiar with my body and I try to be very aware of what's going on."

He went to get his injury looked at by doctors and the Indianapolis Colts' medical staff.

Price admitted there were some nerves and emotions going on before he got the news from the MRI. The worst injury he said he had suffered was an MCL sprain, and he never missed practice for it.

"You get kind of frantic at first and understand hey, your career is in jeopardy right now. Your career and everything that you worked for, since I was playing with the West Catholic Crusaders in sixth grade, could be up in the air, could be done," Price said. "But once you get in the MRI tube, you've got to understand this is something you can't control. This is something that again, and you've got to then react to."

Price broke Luke Fickell's Ohio State record for most consecutive starts with 55. He said in spite of his injury situation, he still did his interviews through the week and met most of the teams in the league, including 19 formal meetings.

Albert Breer of the MMQB first reported on Thursday that teams believed Price had a pectoral tear, but had not gotten the MRI results at that time.