Eric Berry on track for December return

[Hammock Parties]

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/e...efensive-help/

The Kansas City Chiefs have become a Super Bowl favorite despite a leaky defense, but sources maintained that significant help is on the way. Safety Eric Berry, a former Defensive Player of the Year candidate and one of the most loved and respected members of that organization, continued to make strides from a long-term heel injury, and could be back as soon as after Kansas City's Week 12 bye, sources said.

Berry will not play in Monday's clash with the Rams – one of the most anticipated games of the season – and has yet to practice, but the team made a point to take every precaution with the playmaker and has been eyeing the weeks following the bye to implement him back into the lineup. It's expected Berry would begin practicing after the bye, with a return in Week 13 or 14 likely at this point.

The Chiefs secondary has been a major concern this season, with the offense carrying a heavy scoring burden in leading the team to the top of the AFC standings. The recent return of pass rusher Justin Houston has boosted the front seven, and getting Berry back before the playoffs could be another considerable addition.

Berry tore his Achilles tendon in the first game of the 2017 season and has been absent since. He has dealt with heel and foot complications from the injury and overcome several hurdles in his recovery to reach the point where the team feels very positive about his return. Berry provided inspiration, leadership and dominance in his return to the Chiefs in 2016 after overcoming cancer, and the players and coaches eagerly await his upcoming 2018 debut.

[Coach]

In other words....

He's still day-to-day.

[pugsnotdrugs19]

He should be full go by the time we play the Chargers it sounds like.

[O.city]

The team has felt positive he’d play all year

He’ll play when he wants to I guess

[chinaski]

Berry wears his war wound like a crown
He calls his problem Haglund - 'cause he likes the name
And he wears the finest shoe in town
Berry, Berry likes his money
He makes a lot they say
Spends his days counting
On a sidelline near the Interstate

[FlaChief58]

I ain't from Missouri but, show me.

[GMitch]

This is what I've been expecting. The heel is going to hurt to play on and the more he plays, the more it will hurt until he can't play. Bring him back late in the season, use him through the playoffs and he can heal in the off-season.

[SupDock]

Lmao. He was called day to day in preseason, and now they are saying week 13 or 14, and that is supposed to be good news?

[BigRedChief]

Thats exactly what the KC Star reporters podcast said 3 weeks ago.

[pugsnotdrugs19]

Originally Posted by GMitch

This is what I've been expecting. The heel is going to hurt to play on and the more he plays, the more it will hurt until he can't play. Bring him back late in the season, use him through the playoffs and he can heal in the off-season.

It seems to me that he needs to play this year as much as he can, and then have surgery to fix the heel deformity this off-season immediately. I know that it likely entails another Achilles recovery, but at this point, who cares. This heel thing will never be good again unless they have the surgery and shave that bone down.

[arrwheader]

Lol now it’s December uh huh I remember a similar article where it was November.

Eh I hope it’s true but we’ll see.

[notorious]

Change date, copy and paste article.

[Hammock Parties]

has la canfora reported anything before though?

[O.city]

If it does I’m fact need surgery, that shit should have been done mo this ago so he’d be ready to go next year

[CervezaChill]

Didn’t Jeffrey Chadiha report ‘many in the Chiefs camp expect’ Berry to play in the Jags game. That was two months ago.