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