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Originally Posted by FloridaMan88
Yes any injury presents risk… which affected his draft stock… but to argue that he’ll never be an effective player or recover from this injury… is directly disagreeing with the medical assessment of the Chiefs athletic trainer with 30+ years experience.
That’s a strange flex.
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There was a national study on players who suffered this injury from 2009 to 2022 and it wasn’t good.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11806464/
Only 16% of players came back to start as many games as within 2 seasons after their injury as they did before injury.
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”Previously, the literature has shown that, even with timely surgical repair of QT and PT tears, players often never return to their preinjury performance level.”
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Maybe Burkholder is right, but there’s overwhelming evidence in the other direction and it shouldn’t be hand-waived.