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Originally Posted by kcfan75
I'm just wondering, but do your stats compare a 34-year-old on his third contract and how he recovered from it compared to a 22-year-old out of college who is basically looking to make it?
Technically, this guy isn't even an adult until 3 more years. It's easier to recover the younger you are.
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The sample size of players who have torn this tendon is not large enough to do a lot of comparisons by age, but this has been a devastating injury for players - whether they’re on their first deal, or second deal, or into their 30s.
Jack Conklin tore his patellar tendon in 2021, at the beginning of his 2nd contract. He came back the next year, played below his standards, and then blew out every ligament in his OTHER knee. That’s the most recent OL we have enough space for him to rehab from, that I can find (two more tore it last year, so we’ll see).
LeCharles Bentley, who was an all pro interior OL for the Saints, tore it and never made it back on the field. He was in year 2 or 3 of his rookie deal.
Ryan Williams of the Cardinals and Cadillac Williams of the Dolphins both tore it early in their careers and never were the same. Cadillac came back and was bad. Ryan never played again.
Greg Childs blew both patellar tendons in training camp before his rookie season and literally never got started.
Age really isn’t a differentiator on this one.