beware_d-ware
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What the heck... I'll play.
Jaylon's nerve almost certainly isn't the issue. What happens with drop foot is, under extreme trauma, nerves can "shut down" to protect themselves. It takes months for them to even start waking back up, and then years for them to heal all the way from the foot to the site of the injury. We saw this from 2016-2017. The nerves are usually never as fast as they once were before, but "never as fast as they were before" was 2018 Jaylon. Once the nerve is awake, it won't go back to sleep again unless it's hit by some similarly extreme trauma. Short of another huge knee injury, he's not going to sustain enough damage to go back to having a drop foot.
What I am kind of wondering is if his ACL and LCL are OK. In the freakout over Jaylon's nerve damage, a lot of people overlooked the fact that he tore 2 out of the 3 ligaments in his knee, and those both have a habit of cropping up later. They also make future injuries in the same spot more likely.
Odds are that Jaylon's knee isn't degenerative, most ACL injuries aren't. But that being said, his knee got pretty screwed up, so it's not entirely out of the question. The nerve is almost certainly not degenerative - degenerative nerve conditions look more like Parkinson's than a football injury.
My best guess is he's dealing some knee pain or complication that the team wants to keep off the injury report so he doesn't get targeted. But if this lasts throughout the season, then I'd wonder if his bad knee may be going arthritic Todd Gurley style.
Jaylon's nerve almost certainly isn't the issue. What happens with drop foot is, under extreme trauma, nerves can "shut down" to protect themselves. It takes months for them to even start waking back up, and then years for them to heal all the way from the foot to the site of the injury. We saw this from 2016-2017. The nerves are usually never as fast as they once were before, but "never as fast as they were before" was 2018 Jaylon. Once the nerve is awake, it won't go back to sleep again unless it's hit by some similarly extreme trauma. Short of another huge knee injury, he's not going to sustain enough damage to go back to having a drop foot.
What I am kind of wondering is if his ACL and LCL are OK. In the freakout over Jaylon's nerve damage, a lot of people overlooked the fact that he tore 2 out of the 3 ligaments in his knee, and those both have a habit of cropping up later. They also make future injuries in the same spot more likely.
Odds are that Jaylon's knee isn't degenerative, most ACL injuries aren't. But that being said, his knee got pretty screwed up, so it's not entirely out of the question. The nerve is almost certainly not degenerative - degenerative nerve conditions look more like Parkinson's than a football injury.
My best guess is he's dealing some knee pain or complication that the team wants to keep off the injury report so he doesn't get targeted. But if this lasts throughout the season, then I'd wonder if his bad knee may be going arthritic Todd Gurley style.
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