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Originally Posted by DRM08
One thing that will be good for him if he does sit all of the 2017 season. The last game he played at Tech 100% healthy was Arkansas in 2015. That was very early in the year. Very next game, he messed up his knee pretty bad against TCU. Limped around the rest of the year and personally I feel like he lost a step ever since then. Not sure he'll ever get it back to where it was.
In 2016, he messed up his throwing shoulder against Kansas and played a huge chunk of the season with a bad throwing shoulder. Most of us expected him to miss at least 2-3 games. He also had a broken wrist during the 2016 season.
He kept playing through these injuries and I'm hoping he will finally get a chance to protect his body for a year, focus on the playbook, focus on fixing his footwork/mechanics, etc. Then come out in 2018 recharged physically and far more prepared to deal with NFL challenges.
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I assume a lot of these injuries were from not getting down when running the ball? Or were they in the pocket?
He definitely has to learn how to take care of himself out there all the time, Gruden was big on that during his show.