Injuries around the NFL

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by skinsguy

That really sucks for Pennington! He was out for most of the year last year wasn't he? Or either the year before that. I'd like to know how many players in the last 10 or 15 years could have been something great if it weren't for nagging injuries?

Man, that list of players would be really long.

And it was last year that Pennington had problems with that same shoulder. It's an injury that's more common in baseball, not too common among NFL athletes.

From what I've heard most pitchers that have had that surgery don't regain their stuff until two years removed from the surgery. Football is a different animal of course. Not only are you constantly moving in a throwing motion, but unlike pitchers a quarterback is actually taking a physical pounding from a 300 pound defensive lineman.