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Originally Posted by DRM08
Yep, the juke moves might be a bigger threat for injury with Lamar. Deshaun Watson messed up his knee with no physical contact during practice. All it takes is one weird step to mess up an ankle or knee.
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Quarterbacks get hurt but it's rarely one of those 'quarterback gets rocked' kind of things. Montana's back never recovered after that hit he took against the Giants. And a few guys get fallen on and have their shoulders messed up. Smith happened.
But most major QB injuries are kinda flukey. They're Brees getting his arm whacked as he throws or Brady having his knee hit wrong. There's just really no figuring your way around them - it's kind of a 'but for the grace of God go I...' sort of thing.
The one thing that worries the SHIT out of me, however, is concussions. Because I do think that quarterbacks can control that to some degree and sometimes that's an area where Mahomes isn't very good. He doesn't always protect himself well. That's an area where one hard shot, and not even a strange one, can break that seal. And then you just hope beyond hope that you don't see another one that season or even the next.
Because then you start to have those dark thoughts anytime your boy gets hit. Every drop back has you holding your breath. It becomes an Aikman/Young thing. We know that one concussion is often just the beginning of a string of them and then...well then it's done. The party's over. You don't have a guy who is playing at 90% of his once elite level - you have a guy who simply doesn't play any more.
No matter how 'quarterback friendly' the league gets, concussions are so personal and so unique to each individual that a guy who is otherwise fit/talented enough to play to 40 could be out of the game a decade earlier. And Mahomes has a good enough head on his shoulders that I could see that being the one thing that could convince him to walk away early.
I don't think Jackson takes the kind of blows that make him more prone to those, though. People don't acknowledge enough just how good a job he does of avoiding hard contact.