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Originally Posted by htismaqe
There really aren't any positives. The guys that suffer this kind of injury just never fully recover. Again, this isn't about medical exams. Nobody will know if he's good to go until he steps on the field.
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I keep seeing people say "It depends on the medical staff's opinion!" but the medical staff would have to have an opinion that completely ignores the history of this injury to believe he is "the same" as he was before the injury.
Drafting Simmons is basically betting on him being a unicorn, the one dude who actually comes back to what he was before the injury.
As far as positives, I mean, is it a positive that 1/2 the guys who have this injury as NFL players play again? If you HAVE to squint and find a positive, there it is.
It's a coin flip on ending careers. And not just the NFL. NBA, too. (Jeremy Lin, Andre Roberson, Victor Oladipo all had it end their NBA careers in the past 5-10 years).