SeymourTrophies
Rotational Player and Threatening Starter's Job
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Once again, I have plenty of sympathy for the player. . . . but for the Squealers, nada.
Too bad. I don't ever wish these types of injuries on anyone.
The Steelers' draft 2012 seems cursed. Two of their top three draft picks suffer what look to be season ending injuries (although there is some hope for DeCastro to return) and their other one is struggling.
It's actually part of a strange and ugly run of knee injuries we've had of late.
That's 6 *major* (multi-month) knee injuries in the last 6 games, counting pre and post season.
5 ACL/MCLs to starters (Mendenhall, Hampton, LT Max Starks, FB Johnson, DeCastro), plus the season-ender to Spence last night. That doesn't include significant (i.e. multi-week) knee injuries to Harrison and two key reserves (Sylvestor, C. Brown) over the past 4 preseason games.
I guess injuries are a bit like turnovers--they come in bunches, and there's never any rhyme or reason to it.
Really a shame for the young rookie Spence; his game is built on unusual speed and quickness, and you wonder if a guy like that can be effective even after his rehab. That was just a brutal-looking injury, almost Theisman-esque in how the leg bent backward so far.