Jamaal Charles Hopes To Be Healthy By This Summer
 

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Jamaal Charles Hopes To Be Healthy By This Summer

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One of the three early ACL injuries for the Kansas City Chiefs came to a pretty important player -- RB Jamaal Charles. The Chiefs star running back tore his ACL against the Detroit Lions in Week 2 and that's a season-ending injury so, like S Eric Berry and TE Tony Moeaki, we haven't seen much of Charles this year.

But the Chiefs running back does indeed live on. He did a podcast with ESPN's Fantasy Football crew this week and they asked him when he would be able to return from his ACL injury.

"I think I should be ready by OTA's, working out with the team," Charles said (via Arrowhead Addict). "I got hurt early so I had a lot more time to like, to get myself back and it only takes six months. So by the time OTA's it should be like eight, seven months."

That would be sometime in May or June, which is great news for the Chiefs. It's never a good time for a player to tear an ACL but I suppose a positive out of this situation is that all three of those guys suffered the injury early in the year which gives them lots of time to rehab and get back at it next offseason.

Well this is good news.

Even if we get him back at 80% of what he was, that's better than anything we're trotting out there now.

Did they have a translator for him at the podcast?

I think he will be fine. Look at Welker. I'd compare his game alot to the way Charles moves around.

That's good to hear. Guys come back from that injury better than ever with advances in tech.

Still, stating the obvious I know, we've got to draft at some point a legit back to split time with him since the life of a RB is so short in this league.

How likely is it he'll be diminished? I expect him to play tentatively for a while, but do players make it back all the way from these kind of injuries? Any examples of who's come back full force? This isn't a part of football I've paid much attention to, but I sure will next year.

If guys in my over 30 soccer league can come back to full strength...an elite NFL running back can.

Wes Welker had the same injury and came back fine.

I know running backs have a little different life after this normally but most of the examples we have seen are older guys. Charles is what 25?

Clark Hunt is cheap. He probably skimped on the surgery. Pioli will draft a RB with our 1st pick and we'll be stuck with Cassel.

- Chiefsplanet chicken littles

Yeah, like someone like was like there and he liked it.

Normally Rb's don't came back healthy until 2 years ago the ACL.

We need a shit ton of help at the RB position..

It wasn't until his 2cd year after the surgery before he looked like the Wes Welker we all know

Super ironic, imo.

I thought he had a really good year that first year back?

Also he played in game 1 the season after tearing it in January.

Not if we have a QB that can use the pass to open up the run for whomever is back there.

LMAO

Jones would strike fear into the hearts next to Brady...

LOL

An ACL injury ruined Terrell Davis' career. :(

I hope all these injuries were a blessing in disguise, that we can move on from Cassel an dumbassery coaching in Todd Haley.


Next year should be fun.

Big difference in the surgery from then to now.

:spock : You ARE the Chiefsplanet chicken littles...

I'll be real surprised if all three of these guys aren't back to normal by the start of next years TC.

thank god for some good news from the chiefs, for once

fixed your post

I remember Rod Woodson tore his ACL early in the season and came back and played in that years super bowl

They'll be all back to 99% physically. It's the mental aspect that might slow them down for a while.

He also had knee issues in college. I'm not familiar with Jamaal Charles' injury history in college.

He's had shoulder problems, but has never missed a game due to injury until this year

Obviously Terrell Davis is a gigantic pussy if that finished him off.

Probably the same thing will happen to Tebow if he ever gets a hangnail.

LMAO

He is no RGIII in the speech department.....

I see what you did there.



I like it.

Remember Edge James before the Knee Injury? Total beast Mode. After the injury, he was a very solid back, no where near the explosiveness, but still very solid.

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Knowmo, this is Charles first run in wiht knee problems. He has had shoulder problems but that seems to have been resolved.

It seems Thomas has come back from the achlilles thing pretty well.

RBs are a dime a dozen these days and every team needs at least 2. JC is a stud but they all break early in today's game.
I wanted to shoot McDaniels in the head with a flaming aids bullet when he drafted Moreno so high.

That is why I posted this...

This is true but more for average to good backs.

Charles is an elite back in the league, IMO. Hope he comes back fine. But it doens't matter if we still have Cassel handing him the ball.

Charles is a stud; had him on my fantasy team the last 2 years.
I was just thnking how RBs just don't last long anymore which is why McDaniels was a reerun to waste a 1st round draft pick on one. Teams just don't do that near as much as they used to. Now you pick up a couple and plan on one going down.

Typical High School :BS:

You probably really think that home-schooled hillbilly ****er is the virgin Jesus Christ as well.

Even Clark and Fat Scott admit the Chiefs are horrible this year.

Are they Chicken Littles also?

Didn't frank gore have 2 in college?

Since the injury was early in the season he will have more recovery time than a player who gets injured late in the year and have surgery in the offseason. He may not be 100%, but he should be further along than most.

Come back, Jamaal!

Sure would be good to see him rip off a couple of 80 yarders. I like 80 yarders.

FAX

Speaking of 80 yarders, how do you put on pants in the morning, MR Fax? Is it one leg at a time like everyone else?

I just hope his speed isn't affected as much by this injury.

Good to hear he is doing Ok and is on schedule. In 50/50 hindsight I wonder if he would make the same cut?

I built a machine type of deal using a step-ladder, some manilla rope, and an inner tube.

Works pretty well so long as I don't forget to put my socks on first.

FAX

You know, hindsight being 50/50, I'm not sure why I asked.

Well, if you're like me and Mr. Iowanian, you're always looking for some helpful household hints.

For example, just the other day I figured out that you can hide behind your shrubberies and nail neighbor cats with your .22 without being seen, so long as you do it at night.

FAX

Better to kill a black cat than to cross his past and be forced into eating seven years of bad duck.

jcharles25Jamaal Charles

Had a check up today and the doctor said I'm ahead of schedule!!!...#GoChiefs

Heal up Jamaal. Cassel needs his crutch back so he can make another Pro Bowl run!

This is great to hear.


Seems like I remember Berry tweeting something similiar. I'll try and find it.

Kansas City Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles tweeted Friday morning that he had cleats back on for the first time since undergoing ACL surgery.

"(F)elt weird but I'm gettin back into it," Charles wrote.

The Chiefs lost their star running back in Week 2, when he tore his ACL. It appears he's recovering on schedule, so with almost a full year between the injury and the 2012 season opener, he should be fully recovered for Week 1.

Only time will tell when Charles will be up to full speed, though. Quite often that doesn't happen until the second season back from a torn ACL. Nonetheless, since he racked up nearly 2,000 combined yards in 2010, he's going to be an intriguing early-round draft option in 2012 for fantasy owners willing to throw caution to the wind.

I'm not drafting Charles this year. The last time i drafted him he tore his acl.

I really hope the dude gets healthy.

Same here.

www.rotoworld.com

I'm sorry but I just laughed when I read that. Jamaal is/was a speed RB and one of the fastest guys on the team. God help us if he cannot smoke our TE in a footrace.

Somebody post the results if either one of them tweet something about it.

NO MENTION OF BERRY? HE MUST BE FINISHED! NOW WE MUST DRAFT A SAFETY AT #11 TO REPLACE HIM.

They should get JC to spend some time with Priest. Talk with him about developing a positive mindset for coming back from an injury.

I think he will be tentative until he takes a couple good hits to the knee and makes some really hard cuts without any pain or problems.

Wes Welker had the same injury and came back to play in like 7 months.

Yep. And it doesn't appear to have slowed him down at all.

They do have that "longhorn" connection too.

hahahhaha maybe in his prime. hes still the man though just because he cant play nfl rb. funny joke tho haha

I wonder which one pulls a hammy?

Jamaal Charles @jcharles25 Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
I'm a 1 man wreckin Cru!!! #25 My knee is feeling great! Got my swag back

Thats an excellent bit of advice.

I just hope it doesnt rob him of his elite abilities, like penz's Edge James example.

Yeeeeah Riiight.

Suuuuure Jamaal, you just don't want the Chiefs to draft Richardson...

I know the NFL is a passing league, but I'd love to see what a backfield of a healthy charles and richardson could be. With Manning in fron of them

I wonder if JC likes nachos too.

"Ladies, if you are rich and want me to do you meet me at the nacho cart."

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww shit he hopes .............not a good sign

Maybe its highly rumored if mannings healthy kc would sign him

Rumored on Chiefs Planet does not count as an official rumor.

Come back, Jamaal ... please.

FAX

YOU SHUT YOUR ****ING MOUTH!

It isn't his speed that will be affected, but rather his ability to make cuts.

You can rush back from an ACL, but a better plan, to maximize recovery, would be to take it more slowly.

I would hope that the Chiefs limit the workload on Charles, Berry and Moeaki until the early preseason.

If handled correctly, it's very possible that all 3 could come back 100%, with no issues.