News: DC: R. Williams Offers Insight, Support On Claiborne’s Injury

[CCBoy]

R. Williams Offers Insight, Support On Claiborne’s Injury
Posted 11 hours ago

David Helman
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/a...s-Injury/9b1e2271-f603-432d-bb3c-bb7f30cd7cde

IRVING, Texas – Morris Claiborne didn’t have to look far to gain some insight about his torn patellar tendon – roughly 20 feet across the Cowboys’ locker room, in fact.

Ryan Williams’ locker is situated directly across the room from Claiborne at Valley Ranch. Now a member of the Cowboys’ practice squad, Williams fought through the same injury as a highly-touted draft pick for the Arizona Cardinals in 2011. After tearing the tendon during his rookie preseason, Williams was still battling back a year later – a fact he didn’t mask in talking to Claiborne.


“I just told him I didn’t want to sugarcoat anything to him. I felt like when I got hurt, nobody gave me the situation as real as I wanted it to be,” Williams said. “Nobody told me how hard it was going to be coming back, nobody told me what it was going to take coming back.”

Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said Claiborne had surgery on the tendon on Tuesday. The Cowboys haven’t yet placed the third-year cornerback on injured reserve, but they will, ending his season three months early. Having faced that predicament, Williams said he offered Claiborne words of encouragement – as well as a voice of experience.

“I just told him if he ever needed anything, if he ever needed somebody to talk to – because I had sleepless nights. I had a lot of sleepless nights, man – a lot of emotional nights dealing with the whole thing,” Williams said. “Just hollering at him, talking to him, letting him know that somebody is there for him that went through it.”...

 

[CCBoy]

One might just say, that was the real code of the cowboy...

 

[zack]

One might just say, that was the real code of the cowboy...

Having had this same injury a year ago I can tell you that it is a grueling recovery. He is in for a long road, no doubt.

 

[Fredd]

Love that Williams is giving him the shoulder to lean on...Mo needs to focus on recovery and not being a sad sack....

 

[CashMan]

Having had this same injury a year ago I can tell you that it is a grueling recovery. He is in for a long road, no doubt.

I have no doubt that it is, but I think there are a few factors, that differ between he and you. Looks like 20yrs, and I am sure, you did not have the best trainers and doctors helping you. But, I have no doubt, it will be challenging for him.

 

[DandyDon1722]

Having had this same injury a year ago I can tell you that it is a grueling recovery. He is in for a long road, no doubt.

I have an immense amount of respect for you to put in the work to recover from that. It's one thing when it's your career and generational type money is at stake and you're working with the best sports medicine minds in the business; your job is to work out and recover.

It's a whole other story when it's you wanting to rehab bad enough to just be normal again amidst everything else going on in your life. I had a rehab specialist tell a friend of mine who had shoulder surgery - "What you do here for the next six weeks will dictate how you feel the next 40 years."

Pretty sobering stuff - well done Zack!

 

[xwalker]

R. Williams Offers Insight, Support On Claiborne’s Injury
Posted 11 hours ago

David Helman
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/a...s-Injury/9b1e2271-f603-432d-bb3c-bb7f30cd7cde

IRVING, Texas – Morris Claiborne didn’t have to look far to gain some insight about his torn patellar tendon – roughly 20 feet across the Cowboys’ locker room, in fact.

Ryan Williams’ locker is situated directly across the room from Claiborne at Valley Ranch. Now a member of the Cowboys’ practice squad, Williams fought through the same injury as a highly-touted draft pick for the Arizona Cardinals in 2011. After tearing the tendon during his rookie preseason, Williams was still battling back a year later – a fact he didn’t mask in talking to Claiborne.


“I just told him I didn’t want to sugarcoat anything to him. I felt like when I got hurt, nobody gave me the situation as real as I wanted it to be,” Williams said. “Nobody told me how hard it was going to be coming back, nobody told me what it was going to take coming back.”

Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said Claiborne had surgery on the tendon on Tuesday. The Cowboys haven’t yet placed the third-year cornerback on injured reserve, but they will, ending his season three months early. Having faced that predicament, Williams said he offered Claiborne words of encouragement – as well as a voice of experience.

“I just told him if he ever needed anything, if he ever needed somebody to talk to – because I had sleepless nights. I had a lot of sleepless nights, man – a lot of emotional nights dealing with the whole thing,” Williams said. “Just hollering at him, talking to him, letting him know that somebody is there for him that went through it.”...

I think there are variations if the degree of this injury and the exact location of the injury on the tendon. It can be either a partially or completely torn.

I recall Ryan Williams' injury being reported as of the severe type.

It's a different injury, but the reason that Barry Church recovered so well from a torn Achilles was that it was partially torn which is much better than being completely torn.

 

[zack]

I have an immense amount of respect for you to put in the work to recover from that. It's one thing when it's your career and generational type money is at stake and you're working with the best sports medicine minds in the business; your job is to work out and recover.

It's a whole other story when it's you wanting to rehab bad enough to just be normal again amidst everything else going on in your life. I had a rehab specialist tell a friend of mine who had shoulder surgery - "What you do here for the next six weeks will dictate how you feel the next 40 years."

Pretty sobering stuff - well done Zack!

Oh absolutely! I'm back to working out 5 days a week, running, squatting, jumping. I'm not a 100% yet, but getting close. I don't feel like my college days that's for sure, close though.

He will have the best trainers available to him and age on his side, but he will still have to abide by the rehab protocol. He won't be weight bearing for 2 months. It's a nasty injury. With an ACL/meniscus, you can weight bear almost immediately. I wish him luck, but it is one of these injuries that is going to take heart and determination to come back from.