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Now George Wallace is assured a roster spot, further deteriorating the locker room.
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Now George Wallace is assured a roster spot, further deteriorating the locker room.
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Middle round pick Russell Shepherd is actually being considered the front runner for the number two. Must suck for them.
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Lisfranc injury knocks Phillip Thomas out for the season
Posted by Josh Alper on August 13, 2013, 5:54 PM EDT
The Redskins started three members of their 2013 draft class in the secondary for their first preseason game of the year, but that won’t be happening again this week.
Coach Mike Shanahan announced on Tuesday afternoon that safety Phillip Thomas will be placed on injured reserve after doctors found a torn Lisfranc ligament in his left foot. Shanahan said that Thomas will have surgery and be sidelined four-to-five months, which means he’s out of the picture for the team this season.
Thomas, a fourth-round pick in April, started alongside fellow rookie Bacarri Rambo against the Titans last weekend, but was forced out of the game after injuring his foot while making a tackle. The injury was originally described as a sprained foot, but further evaluation discovered the season-ending injury.
The loss of Thomas makes a healthy season from Brandon Meriweather all the more important for the Redskins. Meriweather returned to practice last week after missing time with soreness in the surgically-repaired knee that all but cost him his 2012 season. The Redskins want Meriweather at one starting spot and Rambo may now be the likeliest player to be next to him in the lineup. DeJon Gomes and Reed Doughty, returnees from last year’s disappointing secondary, are other in-house options for the Redskins.
Posted by Josh Alper on August 13, 2013, 5:54 PM EDT
The Redskins started three members of their 2013 draft class in the secondary for their first preseason game of the year, but that won’t be happening again this week.
Coach Mike Shanahan announced on Tuesday afternoon that safety Phillip Thomas will be placed on injured reserve after doctors found a torn Lisfranc ligament in his left foot. Shanahan said that Thomas will have surgery and be sidelined four-to-five months, which means he’s out of the picture for the team this season.
Thomas, a fourth-round pick in April, started alongside fellow rookie Bacarri Rambo against the Titans last weekend, but was forced out of the game after injuring his foot while making a tackle. The injury was originally described as a sprained foot, but further evaluation discovered the season-ending injury.
The loss of Thomas makes a healthy season from Brandon Meriweather all the more important for the Redskins. Meriweather returned to practice last week after missing time with soreness in the surgically-repaired knee that all but cost him his 2012 season. The Redskins want Meriweather at one starting spot and Rambo may now be the likeliest player to be next to him in the lineup. DeJon Gomes and Reed Doughty, returnees from last year’s disappointing secondary, are other in-house options for the Redskins.
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Jared Veldheer has torn triceps, needs surgery
Posted by Josh Alper on August 14, 2013, 2:41 PM EDT
The results of the MRI are in and they aren’t good for Raiders left tackle Jared Veldheer.
Raiders coach Dennis Allen announced Wednesday that Veldheer has a torn left triceps that will need to be surgically repaired. There’s no exact timetable for his return, although Scott Bair of CSNBayArea.com reports that the plan is for Veldheer to go on injured reserve with the designation to return which suggests the Raiders are holding out hope that he’ll be able to help the team at some point this season.
To say this is a major blow to the Raiders is an understatement akin to saying that Anthony Weiner needs a little more self-control on social media. Veldheer is the Raiders’ best offensive lineman and perhaps their best offensive player and his loss will leave an already iffy looking offense even more vulnerable.
It might be easier to swallow if second-round pick Menelik Watson were close to ready, but he just came off the non-football injury list last week and wound up leaving his first practice early after re-injuring his calf. That leaves the Raiders without much choice other than starting journeyman Alex Barron, who is better known for a propensity for penalties than he is for bulldozing opposing defenders.
Posted by Josh Alper on August 14, 2013, 2:41 PM EDT
The results of the MRI are in and they aren’t good for Raiders left tackle Jared Veldheer.
Raiders coach Dennis Allen announced Wednesday that Veldheer has a torn left triceps that will need to be surgically repaired. There’s no exact timetable for his return, although Scott Bair of CSNBayArea.com reports that the plan is for Veldheer to go on injured reserve with the designation to return which suggests the Raiders are holding out hope that he’ll be able to help the team at some point this season.
To say this is a major blow to the Raiders is an understatement akin to saying that Anthony Weiner needs a little more self-control on social media. Veldheer is the Raiders’ best offensive lineman and perhaps their best offensive player and his loss will leave an already iffy looking offense even more vulnerable.
It might be easier to swallow if second-round pick Menelik Watson were close to ready, but he just came off the non-football injury list last week and wound up leaving his first practice early after re-injuring his calf. That leaves the Raiders without much choice other than starting journeyman Alex Barron, who is better known for a propensity for penalties than he is for bulldozing opposing defenders.
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Tom Brady leaves practice, looking at knee
Posted by Darin Gantt on August 14, 2013, 3:32 PM EDT
Every heart in New England just skipped a beat.
According to multiple reports, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady just felt something in his left knee in practice, and then left the field after consulting with coach Bill Belichick.
During their joint practice with the Buccaneers, Brady grabbed his left knee, limped off, but then rejoined practice a play later. But that didn’t last long, and he ended up heading out again with a trainer.
The left is the same knee as the torn ACL that ended his 2008 season.
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Posted by Darin Gantt on August 14, 2013, 3:32 PM EDT
Every heart in New England just skipped a beat.
According to multiple reports, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady just felt something in his left knee in practice, and then left the field after consulting with coach Bill Belichick.
During their joint practice with the Buccaneers, Brady grabbed his left knee, limped off, but then rejoined practice a play later. But that didn’t last long, and he ended up heading out again with a trainer.
The left is the same knee as the torn ACL that ended his 2008 season.
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God is smiting Tom Brady on Tim Tebow's birthday.
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Bad timing indeed. He was looking pretty damn good.
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That was a nasty looking injury. Not quite Marcus Lattimore but close.
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With the NFL's emphasis on removing upper-body hits from the game, I think we're going to see more severe knee injuries like that going forward.
Guys are going to go for the legs more often in order to avoid fines, penalties, and suspensions.
Guys are going to go for the legs more often in order to avoid fines, penalties, and suspensions.
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That's tough, but I think his brother Luigi Manningham can pick up the slack
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Tight end Dustin Keller's reasons for passing on a long-term deal with the Miami Dolphins in favor of a one-year "prove it" contract were understandable.
Keller, who topped out with a 65-catch, 815-yard season with the Jets in 2011, only played eight games last year. He didn't get much attention as a free agent, and decided that he could get the long-term deal he wanted after a productive 2013. So he took a $4.5 million deal with Miami.
That's part of what made Keller's injury against Houston so tough to watch. On an incompletion in the second quarter (and Miami coach Joe Philbin, right or wrong, will have to answer why his starters including Keller were in the game deep into the second quarter), Texans rookie safety D.J. Swearinger hit Keller in the knee. It bent in a really bad way.
Fox Sports' Alex Marvez broke the unsurprising news that Keller is out for the rest of the season. ESPN reported on the severity: Keller tore his ACL, PCL, MCL and dislocated his knee. Given how significant that injury is, hopefully Keller will be able to get healthy by training camp next year, for whatever team he's on.
Keller was in obvious pain and was carted off the field. If it didn't hit him while he rode on that cart, at some point Keller will probably wonder if he did the right thing this offseason.
Again, it made sense. Keller could have had a nice season had he stayed healthy, out of the Jets' terrible passing offense. He had already hooked up with quarterback Ryan Tannehill for a preseason touchdown last week.
“(M)y worth wasn’t where I think it was at," Keller told the Miami Herald in May. So I took a gamble on myself and said I’m better than everyone thinks I am. This is where I want to be long term. But I want to prove to them I’m better than last year.”
It just looked like a bad gamble in retrospect as he was being taken off the field.
Every preseason injury stinks. But in Keller's case, it really hurts.
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From SI.com:
Fourth Down: Dustin Keller’s knee injury, and adjusting the targets.
The news was far worse for Miami Dolphins tight end Dustin Keller, who tore pretty much everything he possibly could in his right knee against the Houston Texans on Saturday. In the second quarter of Houston’s 24-17 win, Texans rookie defensive back D.J. Swearinger went low on Keller, and the veteran tight end had to be carted off the field. It was a brutal result for a player who was taking a one-year gamble on himself as a free agent.
“It’s just unfortunate,” Texans head coach Gary Kubiak said on Sunday. “Any time a player gets hurt is very unfortunate, so you feel bad for the player, whether that guy is on your team or you’re the guy playing against. You just don’t want to see those things happen. All the targets are from the shoulders down in football now — D.J. was playing an out-route and reacted to an in-route. [He was] just reacting and making a tackle and unfortunately got caught in a horrible situation. You just feel very bad for the young man. You don’t want to see that happen at all.”
Swearinger also said that the low hit was related to his consciousness of the NFL’s rules about helmet-to-helmet hits, but not everyone thought the hit was legal.
Former NFL great Tim Brown predicted this outcome in an interview with SB Nation just a couple of days ago.
“What you’re going to have happening is the one thing as a receiver you never want to happen. You didn’t want a guy to take your knees out, because the lower they duck their shoulders, the lower you have to go. Sooner or later these guys are going to have to take knee shots. The problem with that is twofold. One, for a receiver, there’s going to be a season-ending [injury]. For a defensive guy, you catch a knee the wrong way, it can be either game-ending or career-ending. That’s how you get your neck broke, you get caught in the wrong position like that.
“I think they’re forcing these guys to hit below the waist, and that’s just not what you want to have happen.”
Well, it’s happening, and it’s one more thing the NFL will have to review.
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Jets say Coples will have procedure on ankle, out indefinitely
Posted by Michael David Smith on August 18, 2013, 8:44 PM EDT
The Jets have confirmed that linebacker Quinton Coples will miss some time after suffering an ankle injury in Saturday night’s preseason game against the Jaguars, but the amount of time remains unclear.
Amid reports that Coples suffered a hairline fracture in his ankle and would miss 3-4 weeks, the Jets released a statement on Sunday night that was short on specifics.
“Linebacker Quinton Coples suffered an injured right ankle Saturday night in the Jets’ 37-13 win over Jacksonville at MetLife Stadium,” the statement said. “Coples will undergo a medical procedure on Tuesday. He will miss the remainder of the preseason and is out indefinitely.”
The Jets spent the 16th overall pick in last year’s draft on Coples and got 5.5 sacks out of him as a rookie. There were hopes that he’d take a big step forward in his second season, but his 2013 season isn’t getting off to a good start.
Posted by Michael David Smith on August 18, 2013, 8:44 PM EDT
The Jets have confirmed that linebacker Quinton Coples will miss some time after suffering an ankle injury in Saturday night’s preseason game against the Jaguars, but the amount of time remains unclear.
Amid reports that Coples suffered a hairline fracture in his ankle and would miss 3-4 weeks, the Jets released a statement on Sunday night that was short on specifics.
“Linebacker Quinton Coples suffered an injured right ankle Saturday night in the Jets’ 37-13 win over Jacksonville at MetLife Stadium,” the statement said. “Coples will undergo a medical procedure on Tuesday. He will miss the remainder of the preseason and is out indefinitely.”
The Jets spent the 16th overall pick in last year’s draft on Coples and got 5.5 sacks out of him as a rookie. There were hopes that he’d take a big step forward in his second season, but his 2013 season isn’t getting off to a good start.