CR, nice post. But you are mistaken that neither KJ nor TG have a career history of injuries. Key does not, but Terry is the poster boy for missed games...concussions, broken clavicle, assorted hammies, long term bursitis, finger, ankle, knee, etc. Just two 16 game seasons in nine years.
Last year's foot injury (same type as Dan Campbell's, though not as severe) was labeled as potentially "career threatening" (because a poor healing could result in the inability to plant and cut) by Bill and JJ, which is why they put T on IR on Oct 30. Originally, there was not supposed to be surgery (as there was in Dan's case) because only one ligament was involved, and as Bill said in a pc, the issue was not re-attaching the ligament because "there was nothing to attach it to". This was, btw, the same type of foot injury that put then Cleveland Brown Courtney Brown on IR earlier in the season.
So there was supposedly no need for surgery in Terry' case. However, very quietly, w/o fanfare, (I suppose it must have been discussed here), Terry had surgery on both the foot and on his knee the first week of January, when it was revealed he had suffered injury to ligaments, plural. This was after two plus months of maintaining it would not require surgery. The operation on his right knee was, I think, related to the ongoing bursitis he has been plagued with for some years, which Bill blamed on his not wearing knee pads.
The good news is there was no rush to draft a wideout with a high pick, which has to mean Terry's prognosis was good after the surgeries.
But frankly, someone..Crayton, Morgan, Copper, has to step up this year and prove themselves a potential starter with whom there would be no serious fall off if T remains injury prone, or if the two surgeries were not as successful as believed.
We shall see.
