Thursday, August 19, 2010

Running Injury Tracker

Added a bunch today including our first punter, Dave Zastudil. Went all the way back to 8/4 to add Jeff Otah. Team is just about complete other than quarterback. Have a couple of star players (Dumervil, Rice), a solid offensive line (Colon, Saturday, Otah, Kosier) and two many solid regs to mention.

Have one more weekend of football to assess so some time next week I'll finalize the list and make some reckless extrapolations.


date
player
injury

5/2
Limas Sweed
season (achilles)

5/5
Kevin Thomas
season (knee)

6/1
Marlin Jackson
season (torn achilles)

6/9
Thomas Davis
season (ACL)

6/11
Rod Hood
season (ACL)

6/15
Domenik Hixon
season (ACL)

6/27
Willie Colon
season (ruptured achilles)

7/12
Sidney Rice
malingering (hip)

7/26
Atari Bigby
5 weeks+ (ankle

7/30
Dez Bryant
ankle (4-6 weeks)

7/30
Domonique Foxworth
season (ACL)

8/1
Knowshon Moreno
3+ weeks (Hamstring)

8/2
Chris Hovan
season (back)

8/2
Nick Kaczur
back (long time)

8/3
A.J. Edds
season (ACL)

8/3
Kenny McKinley
season (knee)

8/3
D'Anthony Smith
season (torn achilles)

8/3
Ty Warren
season (hip)

8/4
Xavier Adibi
4- weeks (groin

8/4
Donald Butler
season (ruptured achilles)

8/4
Jeff Otah
4+ weeks (knee)

8/5
Elvis Dumervil
4+ months (torn pectoral)

8/5
Ben Patrick
4+ weeks (displaced patella)

8/5
DeMarcus Ware
4+ weeks (knee)

8/7
Charles Johnson
4+ weeks ? (foot)

8/7
Ahmad Brooks
4+ weeks (lacerated kidney)

8/8
Michael Jenkins (Atl)
4-6 wks (shoulder)

8/8
John Phillips
season (ACL)

8/8
Jeff Saturday
4-6 weeks (knee surgery)

8/8
Brian Leonard
4+ weeks ("mid-foot injury")

8/10
D'Qwell Jackson
strained pectoral (4-8 weeks)

8/11
Lynell Hamilton
season (ACL)

8/11
Tim Bulman
"no time soon" (shoulder)

8/11
William Hayes
4-6 weeks (MCL)

8/12
Will Allen
4+ weeks (knee)

8/13
Fred Jackson
4+ weeks (hand)

8/16
Will James
4-6 weeks (high ankle)

8/16
Major Wright
4+ weeks (finger)

8/16
Jordon Dizon
season (knee)

8/16
Ben Tate
season (fractured fibula)

8/16
Tim Bulman
season (shoulder)

8/17
Dave Zustedil
season (patella)

8/17
Jamie Silva
season (knee)

8/18
Kyle Kosier
4-6 weeks (knee)



We talk so much about injuries around here, and in part the pointlessness of OTAs and such I've decided to take a stab at tracking significant off-season and training camp injuries. I'm not going to count guys getting drunk and falling down a flight of stairs or off the back of pickups*. Just the avoidable football ones. Also only counting injuries that will knock players out for at least a month. I'm wondering what kind of team we will be able to build from the wounded.

Yay! Another injury. Dumervil lost for most of the season with a torn pec. Gosh, I'm sure he needed all those reps in the first week of August. Raw prospect like that.

Our defense is nearly set. We really need more offensive linemen to get hurt.

Update: Falcons WR Michael Jenkins suffered a shoulder injury during the team’s intrasquad scrimmage Friday night at North Gwinnett High School.

Adding Atari Bigby too. This almost seems like a cheat since all he did was aggravate an old ankle injury in a conditioning drill, but he did and it was on the field in an organized activity so my hands are tied.

Oh Goody! Another injury. Ben Patrick displaced his kneecap. I guess he left it in his other pants or something. We needed a tight end.


Charlie Weis is walking around with a huge brace after part of his kneecap "fell off". I feel like OS should have a punchline contest for this one.

Added: Nick Kaczur (8/2), Scott McKillop (8/3), Ed Wang (8/5)
Removed: Jeremy Maclin, deep bone bruise recovered within days instead of weeks.

On today's edition of "My Favorite Injury" we add Sidney Rice who actually has been out since 7/12 and who may be dogging his return as a silent protest of his contract status.

Good for him. Stupid to get injured on pointless August practices.



*although arguably a football related injury

5 comments:

  1. What's our thesis here? That training camp and OTAs are *completely* unnecessary?

    I buy that teams do too much in the way of OTAs and training camp, and that there are too many preseason games. I'm not sure I'm on board with the idea that those things are completely unnecessary.

    If they're not *completely* unnecessary, it might be tough to draw the line btw which of these injuries were avoidable, and which not.

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  2. No not that, but I was considering an argument that an astute team would keep its veterans away from contact drills for the first couple weeks of camp.

    It seems that NFL teams are willing to accept a certain amount of attrition and I am not convinced that the benefit of practice exceeds the risk.

    Obviously *some* practice is necessary, but I suspect much less than already occurs.

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  3. 2 NFL-X and 18 games? Is it a done deal we think??

    naj

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  4. From the Balt Sun:
    Goodell tries to sell 18-game schedule at camp
    http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/ravens/bs-sp-ravens-goodell-0804,0,3503551.story

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