Jonathan Brooks parts of Joe Person Athletic article dec 8

[kungfoodude]

8 minutes ago, jtm said:

I understand that the Panthers likely want to be very conservative with his recovery, but it is concerning that Brooks isn't doing full speed cuts after a year.  There is no rhyme or reason why some players get hurt all the time while others don't.  Also, some guys come back from injury with zero side effects and others are never the same.  I'm pulling for him, but this doesn't seem like a Thomas Davis kind of ending.  

No and Davis was an outlier. Most players don't recover from two ACL injuries.

For it to happen before his career even gets off the ground is even worse.

I do feel bad for the kid, it's a terrible thing to have a potentially promising career go this way.

[shaqattaq]

21 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

No and Davis was an outlier. Most players don't recover from two ACL injuries.

For it to happen before his career even gets off the ground is even worse.

I do feel bad for the kid, it's a terrible thing to have a potentially promising career go this way.

I feel for the guy too, but if he never sees the field again, he's fully guaranteed $6.24M. Even if he only clears half of that, he never has to work again (if he's smart).

[TylerDurden]

I said in a previous thread some time ago, if Brooks makes it through his rookie contract here, that alone is found money.  That isn’t even speaking to the idea of him contributing.  I don’t think that’s likely at all.  All three of Chuba, Eico, and Etienne are legit, talented RBs.  I honestly want to see Etienne given more opportunities because he has a special kind of elusiveness to him.  So, unless they let Rico go for what is essentially a rookie RB who hasn’t played football in almost two entire years for what would be a blind guess on what he can do, I don’t see how Brooks sticks.

Also, I’m no doctor obviously, so I’ll leave them to be the experts on that stuff - but reading how he took a strip of IT band from his leg to graft, and then used a strip of the patella tendon two different times in these surgeries - that makes me pretty uncomfortable.  How will those other donor areas hold up now?  Are they more susceptible to injury now following these surgeries?  It just doesn’t logically seem like that’s a positive for him moving forward.  And iirc, TD had cadaver ligaments used in his surgeries, so that seems like less damage to the rest of the body because you’re not taking anything from anywhere else.

[OneBadCat]

Could he be ready for the Super bowl?