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Originally Posted by TwistedChief
This is the crucial point that many in here are missing.
We're not just rolling the dice on an average case for this injury. So it's not like we have a player who just got injured yesterday and we're mapping out the odds of his future without having any of the relevant details.
We have medical professionals looking at the specifics of THIS CASE post-surgery and after some meaningful level of recovery. If you think our medical team is a bunch of ****ing morons, then fine. If you think Reid and Veach were so desperate for this pick despite the fact that we traded back a slot to take him, then fine.
But there's real evidence the team did real work on the medicals and felt like he's probably going to be in the top 10% of whatever recovery study people want to throw out there.
So please, spare us all with the bland statistics. We have a case 1 of 1 with unique details, and the team clearly felt good enough to go in this direction.
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I’m hoping they’re right.
The issues with this injury - the loss of elasticity and transferring power and explosive movement from the quad to the lower leg - are things you can’t test for yet or know at this point.
If all he’s squatting right now is 225, we’re a long way from knowing how the repaired tendon is going to hold up.
The odds are against it, heavily.
Maybe he’s Jason Peters and such a strong upper body guy he can work around it and be fine. Or maybe he really is going to get all the way back. We’ll see.
The data suggests otherwise.
My old roommate/coworker at Sporting News and I spoke earlier tonight. We talk every year on draft night before it kicks off. She’s married to a PhD PT who works in sports orthopaedics.
The info he passed along tracks with the data.
So yeah. I’ll hope my concerns are chicken little and it all works out. I won’t be able to believe it until I see it.