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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
I’d have more confidence in a medical evaluation here if they were able to test strength and explosion in the leg.
If him squatting 225 pounds is being touted by his PR team yesterday as positive sign of recovery, I have hard time believing they ran him through tests that would show if the tendon functions as well as it did before the injury. Im not a doctor or PT, but the PhD PT I know told me that’s the true test of the repair - not just is the tendon whole/did it work/is the joint clean, but can the tendon do as much as before - and that the answer has always been that it is less than it was.
I did knock out some 225-lb one-leg squats at the gym today, though, in Simmons honor.
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And that's the key everyone seems to be missing.
The repair itself seemed to pass with flying colors. Great.
They are still guessing as to if he'll regain 100% flexibility, strength, explosion, power and torque in that leg - and won't know until he's cleared, which sounds like Training Camp. So we wait, and cross our fingers.
Huge risk, which interestingly enough - the rest of the league wasn't concerned about his medical, yet 31 teams passed on a "Top 5 talent."
Hint: Teams know the stats/study kccrow posted and said, "nah we're good."