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On Football analyzes the biggest topics in the NFL from week to week. Aaron Rodgers defied conventional medicine by returning to practice just 77 days after surgery for a torn Achilles tendon.
Get moving early. Akers’ path to demolishing the typical 9- to 12-month timeline for Achilles tear recovery began on the operating table. He put his NFL future in the skilled hands of Dr. Neal ...
Before returning to action on Sunday, January 5, Detroit Lions star Alex Anzalone showed off the gruesome journey it took to get there. Hours prior to the team’s Sunday Night Football showdown ...
He accepted a football scholarship from the University of South Carolina, where he played as an undersized (205 pounds) defensive end as a true freshman, before suffering a leg injury. The following year, he was moved to tight end and eventually became a starter as a junior. [1] He was a part of a 56–20 win against Clemson University in 1975.
During Week 3 of the 2022 NFL season, Tagovailoa sustained his first controversial head injury in a game against the Buffalo Bills at Hard Rock Stadium on September 25, 2022. Following a roughing the passer penalty by Bills linebacker Matt Milano, Tagovailoa exhibited signs of ataxia, displaying impaired muscle control after his head struck the ...
Akers was expected to be sidelined for the entire 2021 season, [37] as he was placed on the reserve/non-football injury list to start the season. However, he was one of the first players to receive the SpeedBridge surgery, shortening his recovery time from 12 months to five months, and was activated to the active roster on December 25, 2021. [38]
According to the Cleveland Clinic, an LCL injury like Rice's takes a minimum of 8-12 weeks of recovery time. That would likely keep him sidelined through the end of the calendar year at a minimum.
Over a 13-year period from September 1989 to June 2002, there were 94 players who sustained catastrophic head injuries—8 of these players died as a result of the injury, 46 sustained permanent neurological damage, and 36 made a full recovery. 56% of these players had a history of head injuries, 71% of them occurring in the same season as ...