Dontari Poe will miss camp due to back injury
 

@DannyParkins: Dontari Poe will miss training camp. #Chiefs

@ChiefsReporter: Dontari Poe will be resting until after #ChiefsCamp. Won't participate in team practices.

@pgsween: #Chiefs DT Dontari Poe had a herniated disk in his back and had successful surgery on July 15. He is doing great & will be up to camp Fri.

Get healthy. We don't need him in camp.

The whole ****ing thing? Just like that?

I feel like if it heals up with a week or so left of camp, you get him reps.

Gonna be a lot harder to win the preseason Super Bowl without him :(

and ****

good, less wear and tear on him. he might start a little slow, but thats ok. as long as he's full bore down the stretch. He plays way to many plays during a game as it is.

4-12

Back injuries foe big men aren't good news.

Just heard that. He'll be aight.

He's been playing too dam much anyway.


This forces Sutton to get used to playing without him.

Looks like Berry might have a chance to play this year. Reid said Berry is in great shape and is undergoing a physical in KC. Will provide a update tommorow

Um. this is a career shortening injury. Big guys with bad backs... don't mix. He is going to weigh 500 lbs after sitting on his ass all summer. We won't see him till midseason, and even then, we have no idea what we'll get.

Yeah they seemed pretty upbeat about berry

It's happening. Gif

Agreed.

It's almost like the Chiefs haven't even tried to get the big man rest. They're smarter than that.

Make it happen.

Yeah I was about to say...Reid made it sound like Berry is in great shape even coming out of treatment...he's doing physicals and they're hopeful he's ready to go soon but don't want to give anything away until his physicals are over. If he's back this early that kid is superman. That's incredible and an absolute inspiration.

I wonder who will get reps at NT.

Put DeVito there. We really need to get the Big Cat some playing time. Can't get 20 sacks without getting some reps first.

I know injuries happen, but **** it seems like our best players keep getting ****ed up..

Because chiefs I guess

Reid said Howard is taking reps

Fantastic.

Chiefs will know about Berry within the next 24 hours. Having tests done WITH THE TEAM.

That's incredible.

Per 610.

I wonder how he hurt himself.

This could a good thing as long as this back issue doesn't linger.


We have to find a viable rotation to give Poe a break.

Recovery time for laminectomies/discectomies is way longer than 6 weeks.

I would question why wasn't the surgery done earlier though.

Rotoworld makes it sound like he could miss the whole season.

And that would be a fair question

http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/7422/dontari-poe

That has to be a typo, right??

That escalated quickly.

Yeah they pretty much completely butchered that up.

That is a typo. He clearly said early in the season, if not the first game. They misheard.

They went off of what Terez Paylor tweeted. He meant to say the end of pre season

If he only misses camp after having surgery for a herniated disc in the midle of July it will be a miracle.

Reid said they're thinking hell be back by early season, whatever that is

Rub some dirt on it

Oh shit.

Umm....a herniated disc? Yeah, that's really REALLY not good. Big guys with back issues never really shake them. He'll feel a slight knot back there, possibly for the rest of his life. And if he gets turned in just the wrong direction, that wall that is supposed to hold the disc in (which is now compromised) won't, the disc will bulge and the spine will pinch on it. At that point he ends up with shooting pain somewhere in his body (depending on which disc) and usually the muscles around the area bunch up incredibly tight and won't release so now that all hurts like hell as well.

This is really REALLY shitty news.

This is the kind of thing that will linger and could significantly impact his career going forward.

Not a good start to camp. Im not TOO worried, as i think we have good DL depth. The Berry news is interesting.

3 month minimum recovery.

WE'REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

I'm so mad about this that I'm going to neg rep everyone in the thread just because they were standing nearby when I heard the news.

A herniated disc is bad news.

bad backs and big guys can't be good news...and he still hasn't got his fat payday yet

Give it a break

I saw Berry last night. No way he's playing this year.

Zobrist. Yay! Poe. No!! Berry. Yay!!!

Quite a sports day.

LOL...see, always something with this franchise.

This will contribute to our 0-3 start.

I just read that Chiefs' new rookie receiver Kenny Cook battled Lymphoma and came out on the winning end.

NFL lineman and bad backs is like 7 foot centers in the NBA and bad feet.

Sounds like we're officially writing him off as damaged goods.

"throw him back in the pile, he's a blem"

That's pretty much a non-starter.

A disc issue will linger. It's not likely to ever really fully recover. The only thing he can do is strengthen around the disc so much that it's never really put under the same amount of stress it once was. The problem is that even that sort of training may aggravate it.

A disc injury is really really bad news.

ummmm ... no

regular people can often return to limited work in less than a week (i did)


of course football players are different and can't return under "limits" but they also heal faster and have superior medical care


depends what all was done in the surgery as well

NEW YORK – Professional football players, even those in the most physically punishing positions, can undergo back surgery and return to the gridiron, researchers at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine report in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

"They aren't broken, they aren't more fragile after surgery," orthopedic surgeon and lead author Dr. Joseph K. Weistroffer told Reuters Health. "Four out of five who have surgery not only return to play, they return to starter positions."

Weistroffer and colleagues decided to look into how often National Football League linemen returned to play following surgery for a herniated disk after hearing a broadcaster declare a player "broken" and unlikely to play again after surgery.

Linemen tend to be the biggest, heaviest players on the team. Their responsibilities require a lot of crouching, twisting and pummeling on the field, putting tremendous stress on their backs.

Herniated disk - sometimes called a "slipped disk" occurs when soft cushioning disks between spinal vertebrae become displaced. The leaking disc material pressing on spinal nerves can produce intense back pain and numbness or tingling in arms or legs.

Among college football players, 15 percent to 50 percent of linemen suffer lower-back disk injuries including herniations.


To see how well elite NFL players fare, the researchers gathered information about linemen on team rosters between 1982 and 2009 from various sources including press reports, team injury reports, newspaper archives, team records and individual players' profiles. Only those NFL linemen diagnosed with a herniated disk in at least two independent sources and one official league injury report were included.

Of the 66 players included in the study, 14 were treated non-surgically and 52 treated with surgery. Of those treated surgically, 42 (81 percent) returned to play in at least one game, although most played an average of 33 games over 3 years.

The success of surgical treatment in NFL linemen was "significantly better than we expected," the authors write.

"What's remarkable is that many of these players not only returned to play, they returned to starter positions," Weistroffer said.

Of the players treated with surgery, 36 had been starters before their herniated disk diagnosis and 33 of them returned to that status after surgery.

In contrast, only four of the 14 players treated non-surgically returned to play. Weistroffer cautions against reading any significance into that fact. "The numbers are too small to draw conclusions from," he said.

Nonsurgical treatment for herniated disk usually includes muscle relaxers, pain killers and anti-inflammatory medications, and may involve cold compresses applied several times a day.
Surgery to open the back, clean out leaked disc material and stabilize the spine is a treatment of last resort, Weistroffer said.

"No surgery is the best option for everyone, including elite athletes," he said. "But if a herniated disc doesn't heal naturally, surgery may be an option" without branding a lineman as damaged for good.

The results of this study, the authors point out, cannot be generalized to the population at large.

Elite athletes have strong incentives to return to play including in some cases multi-million dollar contracts. In addition, elite athletes have significant resources available to help in rehab including "focused, well-trained professional staff dedicated to strength and conditioning."

Nevertheless, "if a NFL lineman can return to full activities, the average Joe has a good chance to get back on with their life if they don't heal naturally and decide to turn to surgery," Weistroffer said.

At least they won't have to pay him Suh money now

Pretty sure that means preseason.

It took me a long time to recover from my back surgery but after five years doing much better. Best wishes Poe.

I bet he's back game 1

:facepalm:

You saw him how? Where?

The Chiefs had this done just so he won't earn a huge payday. next year.

#2 ) I've lived with a herniated disc for some 30 years and still work every day. What a puss.

What the hot **** are you talking about.

But seriously.

http://i.imgur.com/guY8ebH.jpg

John Dorsey needs to get Red Bryant on the phone ASAP. Bryant is 328 lbs and has been an above average run stuffer per PFF with 4 sacks in the last 2 years playing in Seattle and Jacksonville.

I'm not trusting a 300 lb Jaye Howard or a guy who is coming back from an achilles injury to fill in at NT.

Lol at the CP doctors

Is that big ass Rakeem dude worth a shit?

Or trust DT Rakeem Nunez-Roches.

We're not even a day into training camp and it's already full meltdown mode. This is gonna be a long season CP

Not like Dontari Poe is the most important player on our defense and guys like him are easy to find.

Link?

Justin Houston says hi

There are lots of good pass rushers in the NFL.

There only like 5 guys who can do what Poe does.

My guess would be in Best Buy. :thumb:

Red Bryant

We've got some cap space now.

better to grab him now and not need him then to end up without options later


he can play the run

LMAO Really? WTF does this have to do with the 'franchise'?

Well, other than lousy luck.

Are you struggling with your sexuality, Bruce?

Poe is smart, put off the surgery until the last minute so you don't have to go to Training Camp.

Well, the franchise continues to rely on mediocre QBs.

When you do that, losing your NT for a significant chunk of time has a greater impact.

Now the D is going to be worse...we'll give up more points...we have a mediocre QB behind a bad line trying to play catch up against Peyton Manning and Aaron Rodgers in the first 3 weeks...

I'm sure everything will work out just fine though.

Just for once I'd like to go into a season thinking "well that sucks but we have a badass QB and I'm sure he can carry the team through this."

At least it isn't all doom and gloom like the Clowney situation

They don't sound optimistic he will be back early in the season.

I'm worried.