The nerve is officially firing***merged***

[jobberone]

Great news. Moving on now.

 

[Doomsay]

Man, what great news for him personally, there a few things scarier and more soul crushing than paralysis.

 

[ConceptCoop]

If Jaylon can be half the player apparently Rico Gathers now is, we're in for multiple Super Bowls.

 

[jamesdojr]

Ian Rapoport‏Verified account @RapSheet
Ian Rapoport Retweeted Around The NFL

Jaylon Smith can lift his toes. This is good news.

Ian Rapoport added,

Around The NFLVerified account @AroundTheNFL
Nerve in Jaylon Smith's knee regenerating; Cowboys LB slowly gaining muscle control, @RapSheet reports http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...n-pick-toes-up-lift-foot?campaign=Twitter_atn …

That is big news. If this is true, Jerry found his war daddy.

 

[Plankton]

That is big news. If this is true, Jerry found his war daddy.

Ummm......not quite.

Smith is not a pass rusher. He's a run and chase LB who can be a boon in coverage. Pass rushing is not his forte, nor was he asked to do a lot of it at Notre Dame.

 

[Doc50]

I hope that they actually do approach it this way. Jaylon needs to progress naturally, no matter how long it takes, even if he has to sit out the entire year.

It would be really careless to try to force his progression and cause additional injury to him, which would actually set back the process. If he can move his toes and lift his foot the chances of him getting full functionality at some point would seem to be likely. We could have the use of this player for 10 years. It is not worth risking his health over one additional season.

Having said all of the foregoing, I think his progression will increase at an increasing rate. I think it is just a meater of time until he regains full functionality.

Again, there is no increased risk when playing him with possibly a slight peroneal palsy. Neither the nerve, knee, leg, foot, or toes are in any jeopardy.

BTW, the peroneal nerve controls dorsiflexion of the foot and toes; therefore, the toes don't regain strength and function before the more proximal innervation of the foot does. Again, this has nothing to do with his push-off strength and function, which is approximately 90% of his leg work.

His mindset and work ethic have been exemplary. He'll be worth the pick this year, even as he learns the system; he'll exceed it in 2018.

 

[AzorAhai]

Stop. Nobody here wants the guy to never live up to the hype he has. Some of us just aren't wearing rose-colored glasses about it.

And you're one of the ones I'm talking about. Hide behind your "rose-colored glasses" comment all you like, but you and multiple others have been overly negative about any and everything Jaylon related.

 

[NorthwestDallas40]

Ummm......not quite.

Smith is not a pass rusher. He's a run and chase LB who can be a boon in coverage. Pass rushing is not his forte, nor was he asked to do a lot of it at Notre Dame.

I beg to differ.

 

[ConceptCoop]

Some of you in here would rather be right about him never getting healthy over being wrong and him being a good player. Grow tf up Francis

Both sides of this divide are just as biased and annoying as the other. We all want Smith to be the next Cowboy great. Some of us are more prone to skepticism, and others to enthusiasm. Whichever side ends up being "right" will have simply made a lucky guess; none of us know ****. Let's not make this about what "side" was right or wrong, or how badly each side wants to be right. These threads are getting hard to read; which is a shame. You can think the pick was bad and still want Jaylon Smith to be great. You can acknowledge good news and still be skeptical. Let's stop polorizing the fanbase.

 

[calicowboy54]

can I change my user name to Jaylon's Nerve?

I think JNerve54 is more appropriate

 

[visionary]

Is this the first report of Jaylon being able to lift his toes??

Without using his hands?

Yes

 

[jjktkk]

Pay no attention to Quest. He's just like that in general.

Probably sits out on his front porch with Visonary, throwing yard darts at a cardboard cutout of Jerry.

 

[AzorAhai]

Both sides of this divide are just as biased and annoying as the other. We all want Smith to be the next Cowboy great. Some of us are more prone to skepticism, and others to enthusiasm. Whichever side ends up being "right" will have simply made a lucky guess; none of us know ****. Let's not make this about what "side" was right or wrong, or how badly each side wants to be right. These threads are getting hard to read; which is a shame. You can think the pick was bad and still want Jaylon Smith to be great. You can acknowledge good news and still be skeptical. Let's stop polorizing the fanbase.

The people I'm addressing aren't acknowledging good news while being skeptical. They have been nothing but negative from the get go. I've been skeptical from the start and hated the pick. What I've actually done since then is be open minded on the news and evaluate it that way. I really couldn't care less about being right or wrong or what side I was on.

But you are fooling yourself if you think there's not people who are so dead set on being right about him being a bad pick that they are looking for the bad in any news.

 

[bayeslife]

Ummm......not quite.

Smith is not a pass rusher. He's a run and chase LB who can be a boon in coverage. Pass rushing is not his forte, nor was he asked to do a lot of it at Notre Dame.

What? There's literally highlights of it

 

[Scotman]

He never said which foot.

This is the funniest comment on this board in along time.

 

[SilverStarCowboy]

Most Historic Draft in the sports annals of time is Officially the 2016 Dallas Cowboys NFL Draft.

 

[Rogerthat12]

Both sides of this divide are just as biased and annoying as the other. We all want Smith to be the next Cowboy great. Some of us are more prone to skepticism, and others to enthusiasm. Whichever side ends up being "right" will have simply made a lucky guess; none of us know ****. Let's not make this about what "side" was right or wrong, or how badly each side wants to be right. These threads are getting hard to read; which is a shame. You can think the pick was bad and still want Jaylon Smith to be great. You can acknowledge good news and still be skeptical. Let's stop polorizing the fanbase.

The fact is as with most debates on this site, time will reveal the truth.

You are correct on the extremes either way and how those positions are usually not self-critical.

 

[Wood]

Its officially on. Looks like Jaylon will play with brace in 2017 as muscle control returns to regenerating nerve and if all goes well his brace will come off in 2018 and he is full go.

Its also worth noting that if nerve continues to regenerate you will see Jaylon getting better-and-better on week-to-week basis. So what you will see in training camp will be on the low-end of what you will see in maybe another year or two.

 

[Clove]

Hell to the yeah!!! The front office has been very quiet about him, and it could be argued they knew more than they let on, were being intentionally coy.

He will be the most watched player on our club during OTAs, practice, preseason! It's gonna be fun!

He's in incredible shape, so he's ahead of the curve there. He certainly doesn't need to work himself back into playing shape like certain others on the squad, both past and present.

My friend, this is GREAT NEWS.

 

[Wood]

Is this the first report of Jaylon being able to lift his toes??

yes. This is first report of him dorsiflexing (lifting toward ceiling) anything in that left foot.