Johnathon brooks

[UnluckyforSome]

12 hours ago, theinstrumental said:

I'm surprised at how little hope everyone has. Nick Chubb's first knee injury was completely devastating, his second was disgusting, and he's back in the NFL. Lost some burst, but at his age, that's not a surprise.

JK Dobbins' injury history is obscenely long; most notably, he blew a knee and an Achilles. He started most of the season. 

ACL's aren't the death sentence they used to be. Brooks is really young for an NFL player--he wasn't even born yet when Jake Delhomme took us to the Super Bowl. He'd be young for this upcoming draft class. There's a good shot he's back to contributing next year.

The flaw in this is that every athlete's body will respond differently. To think that he will bounce back and be just about like new is as incorrect to think he will never run again and a stiff breeze will send him to the ground.

There is really no way to predict what the outcome will be.

[electro's horse]

On 11/18/2025 at 8:02 PM, Jmac said:

Can anyone answer if the medical team who worked on his ACL are the same group that fixed Thomas Davis. Did a great job on his tear using a different operation that Brooks had done and he came back a beast after 3 tears. Brooks will be 24 next season and had lots of potential.

Thomas Davis had his first ACL tear nearly 2 decades ago.

There is nothing similar about the group (I think Wattenberger did his back in the day) or the actual procedure. There have been lightyear advancement in ACL reconstruction. 

[theinstrumental]

2 hours ago, UnluckyforSome said:

The flaw in this is that every athlete's body will respond differently. To think that he will bounce back and be just about like new is as incorrect to think he will never run again and a stiff breeze will send him to the ground.

There is really no way to predict what the outcome will be.

Yeah, I never said that he'll be just like new. I said I was surprised at how completely negative the sentiment is on this board and that there's still a good shot he can contribute again. As in a chance.

[UnluckyforSome]

10 minutes ago, theinstrumental said:

Yeah, I never said that he'll be just like new. I said I was surprised at how completely negative the sentiment is on this board and that there's still a good shot he can contribute again. As in a chance.

There are chances for lots of things. Possible is not the same as plausible.

Personally, I don't think it's wise to spend premium draft capital on a rb with a serious injury. It sure is great we told Jerruh Jones to pound sand and snapped up a player we assumed he wanted though. Har har, Jerruh! But that's my take on it.

As I have said previously here, I hope he is the next great Longhorns rb in the NFL. Maybe he will be. There's a chance.

[SmokinwithWilly]

56 minutes ago, theinstrumental said:

Yeah, I never said that he'll be just like new. I said I was surprised at how completely negative the sentiment is on this board and that there's still a good shot he can contribute again. As in a chance.

For me, it's because we needed a center, Frazier was sitting there, and we traded up for an injured RB that wasn't ready for TC as promised, or the season opener, then until mid season, then has another tear and is out all of year 2. Year 3 we hope he'll be back, but just judging by his history, that's no guarantee. We drafted Etienne so who knows if he's in the future plans or if he's just another Eric Shelton. 

With so many needs on this team, taking an injured RB was a luxury pick we didn't have the luxury to make. I have nothing against the guy, don't know him. Hope he does come back and can contribute. At this point, my angst is with the FO, not Brooks. It's just another one of those times when the lowly Huddle was right, again. It just gets old, and really seems to be a pattern under Tepper. 

[kungfoodude]

21 minutes ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

For me, it's because we needed a center, Frazier was sitting there, and we traded up for an injured RB that wasn't ready for TC as promised, or the season opener, then until mid season, then has another tear and is out all of year 2. Year 3 we hope he'll be back, but just judging by his history, that's no guarantee. We drafted Etienne so who knows if he's in the future plans or if he's just another Eric Shelton. 

With so many needs on this team, taking an injured RB was a luxury pick we didn't have the luxury to make. I have nothing against the guy, don't know him. Hope he does come back and can contribute. At this point, my angst is with the FO, not Brooks. It's just another one of those times when the lowly Huddle was right, again. It just gets old, and really seems to be a pattern under Tepper. 

Yeah, it was such an insanely luxury pick. You know what makes it look so much more insanely bad? Rico Dowdle. So we get one of the most productive RB's in the NFL for pennies on a one year deal.

So why was it necessary to draft an injured RB again?

Just Panthers poo.

[electro's horse]

The panthers offense is predicated around a group of ten players running wind sprints for 3 quarters and wearing out the defensive linebackers and DBs while scoring 13 points, then scratching out a last second field goal as time expires.

brooks was basically a faster Chuba in that nonstop screen stretch run offense. It makes sense we’d need another running back just to help tire out the defense.

this strategy works against the worst teams in the league, or the packers in a hurricane if all their receivers get hurt.

 

[electro's horse]

The panthers offense right now is spiritually the same as the 2010s Seahawks. They want to keep it close until the fourth quarter and then try to pull a rabbit out of their hat.

instead of running marshawn into the line 30 times a game, we’re throwing 20 passes behind the line of scrimmage. And instead of Russell Wilson bullshit, we’re getting 20 yard drives to set up a 55 yard field goal.

Also that team had multiple hall of famers and we’ve got the worst qb in the league by whatever collections of metrics you want to use

[Jmac]

Just don't draft another player who has a major injury. Lesson learned,  hopefully.

Edited 3 hours ago by Jmac

[PantherChris]

18 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

Well he somehow had 12 preseason carries for not playing. He also has 20 carries in the regular season, not three. He has actually played in about 7% of the offensive snaps for this regular season(33% of the special teams snaps).

This isn't stuff you have to make up, these are very easily referenced statistics, man.

Dude I don't know were you think he played in the pre season but he 100% did not 

He has 9 career carries not 20.... or 3 lol.

 

Either way 9 carries is 3 a game which isnt enough to get in rythym or know anything.

https://www.footballdb.com/teams/nfl/carolina-panthers/stats/2024?type=reg

 

[Basbear]

On 11/18/2025 at 8:02 PM, Jmac said:

Can anyone answer if the medical team who worked on his ACL are the same group that fixed Thomas Davis. Did a great job on his tear using a different operation that Brooks had done and he came back a beast after 3 tears. Brooks will be 24 next season and had lots of potential.

How will this effect Dowdle and Chuba next year? Will they try and keep both of them and let Brooks walk? Or take another chance on the rookie?

Opinions? 

 

Don't testify with this, my member berry sucks. I recalled Thomas talking about it and the second ACL tear I believe they used cadaver and it failed. He still wanted to play and asked Mr Richardson for the opportunity.(all teams at this point would cut bait with the player). They took a ligament form his other knee, which made the rehab longer but he had a better change at coming back. The other part is history. I mean people talk about Tom Brady and his late career master class, TD needs some love form playing at a high level late into his career with 3 ACLs, just no other to compare either. 

Brooks should not be counted on and if hes able to come while keeping his elite RB skills, welcome back then!