long distance
Pro Bowl Player
- Joined
- Dec 14, 2015
- Messages
- 10,296
- Reaction score
- 27,263
Certainly an injury to monitor. Not saying another huge retirement on horizon but he is the smartest guy who will listen to his body and knows very well his next calling in life.
from Reiss:
After a 2016 season during which he dealt with nagging injuries, Patriots special-teams captain Matthew Slater had to be frustrated Wednesday when he was forced to leave practice and appeared to be in significant discomfort, as he could hardly put one leg in front of the other after apparently pulling up. The severity of Slater's undisclosed ailment might have been tipped off when coach Bill Belichick visited him in the medical tent before Slater departed for the locker room, looking extremely stiff as he walked. Then, on Saturday when the team's injured players worked on the lower practice field, Slater was nowhere to be found. At this point, it looks to be the Patriots' most significant injury through the first nine practices of camp.
from Reiss:
After a 2016 season during which he dealt with nagging injuries, Patriots special-teams captain Matthew Slater had to be frustrated Wednesday when he was forced to leave practice and appeared to be in significant discomfort, as he could hardly put one leg in front of the other after apparently pulling up. The severity of Slater's undisclosed ailment might have been tipped off when coach Bill Belichick visited him in the medical tent before Slater departed for the locker room, looking extremely stiff as he walked. Then, on Saturday when the team's injured players worked on the lower practice field, Slater was nowhere to be found. At this point, it looks to be the Patriots' most significant injury through the first nine practices of camp.