Kills me that people are scared of injuries when we are talking about football. We could draft someone with zero injuries and still get fucked over. Giants WR Nabers just tore his ACL this past year yet had zero injuries in college. Take the most talented players.
I wonder what the statistics say on that. If you were to take all the players who had a legit ACL or equivalent level injury in college, and then compared their success rate and how many years played in the NFL to those who did not have injuries.
You bet your ass they have stats considering the fact that analytics is a huge thing. However with that said, teams still gotta make those gut decisions too regardless of the statistics. Injuries are just really shitty luck a lot of times. Hard to know who will get them unless you're Cam Skattebo
It's a legitimate concern. I'm willing to take the risk due to the talent. Might backfire. But that's true for any player we draft there. No sure things.
I'm sure his girlfriend would agree.
Yes it was, but JSN didn’t tear every ligament in his knee 3 years ago.Yet Tyson's recent injury was a hamstring......
Vermeil would have never drafted him. Eddie George should have been the pick. However, Rams GM at the time was Steve Ortmayer, he came from the Raiders and was used to drafting & signing players with a checkered past.
I'm not troubled by that injury, as long as the medicals check out. Torn ligaments routinely occur, and guys bounce back without issue. An Achilles rupture or a torn patellar would concern me.
Apropos of this all, I was insanely impressed with Cam Akers coming back from the achilles in record time and thought we may have blown through a new plateau in sports medicine with athletes coming back from achilles tears but alas, I don't think he was physically the same after... or maybe that was just him becoming a head case all of a sudden.
Also, it was one injury in 2022 that lingered. Tyson has had multiple injuries.
Somebody in the scouting department didn't do their homework with that loser.
