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Originally Posted by Direckshun
Do we have anything other than hopes and prayers that Watson will be back?
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I'm using Cook as my metric.
By many accounts, Cook was close but not quite in his return from his ankle issue last season and he went down in week 13. So by the SB that would've been about 10 weeks out.
Watson went down in week 5.
And yes, Watson broke his ankle, but in the case of a serious ankle injury like this, it ISN'T the bone that's the problem - it's the ligaments. And Cook had a tight-rope procedure in his ankle last season which is about as serious as it gets apart from a full replacement.
We have no indication that Watson had anything replaced so it's most likely that, as part of the broken ankle, he also had a tight-rope procedure done. And his injury came 8 weeks prior to Cooks. Given a similar recover timeline from the tight-rope and ligament damage (presuming that the break will be healed well before that), we're looking at about a 10-12 week recovery time.
At his age, with the training staff and facilities he has available to him, 12 weeks is a reasonable expectation on a tight rope procedure.
I just don't see any reason at all to write him off unless there's a setback. Without a setback, that level of injury is absolutely one he can recover from by the post-season.