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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
I mean, a tendon can be repaired/sound and the player can still be less than they were before.
It happens all the time - athletes and non-athletes alike. That patellar tendon repair is one that has been notoriously difficult to completely return to form from.
This isn’t an ACL or a broken bone…
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Exactly.
You look at Henry Josey as a perfect example. By all accounts he was 'healed' and the surgery on his knee was a success.
He still went from being the most explosive RB in college football as a true sophomore to being good but clearly not what he once was after he missed a season.
It was repaired. "The medicals checked out" by any definition of the term. He simply wasn't the same player.
There's absolutely nothing that can be seen/done to determine if Simmons is the guy he was trending towards being before that injury. It's a roll of the dice either way.
In that case, just gimme Conerly. The history of patella injuries is just damn rough.