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Originally Posted by Priest31kc
Ill be thrilled if he's back at any time this season, so 2/10 would be good with me.
You're not buying the back within 4 weeks talk?
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Nah. That's less than 8 weeks for a back injury so uncomfortable that it required surgical intervention. I'm not saying he won't look fit as a fiddle and think that he can probably play, but there's going to be heightened chance for re-injury at that point and I don't think his own doctors (I'm sure he has them) will clear him.
That's just raw, unbridled speculation obviously. It just seems too early for a kid with genuine top of the draft ability. He can't risk it. But by the middle of February he'll be a 12+ weeks in, IIRC. That's almost certainly enough for him to get out there with confidence.