[TwistedChief]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Yep. I think the missing element in the studies that people are quoting is that the teams absorbed the injury when the player was on the team. It's not like they had the option to not have the player on the team.

The Chiefs looked at Mr. Simmons after the injury and recovery. They had the opportunity to pass on him if they weren't seeing recovery. So that brings up the question of when it's possible to tell that a player is making a strong recovery or not. The Chiefs are obviously comfortable that they're evaluating Mr. Simmons at a point in time where his recovery can be thoroughly evaluated, and they're comfortable with it.

I don't care if only 20 percent of players come back if we're able to determine that he's in that 20 percent before we draft him.

E-X-A-C-T-L-Y.