2015 Week 9 Offensive Line Starters

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by 81forHOF

I was saying ideally, down the road scenario. The other option is to write off our 2014 3rd pick. It would be nice to get 2 starters instead of one and Schreff is better suited inside than Moses.

We have been wasting mid round draft picks on guards who never pan out for how long? Any member here could provide a list as long as my arm. Yet our starters our always FA castaways from other teams. Stop wasting picks and invest a 1st rounder on a guard already.

Am I understanding you that Moses won't be back by week 9? Just wondering.

No he'll surely be back in action by week 9, in fact I haven't heard anything indicating that he won't be back by week 1.

But Lisfranc's are notorious for slow recoveries. It's not that they take forever to heal to the point where you can't get back on the field, it's that players take forever to regain their full capabilities. They take place at a spot in the foot that's crucial to pushing off with force. Some guys never get the same explosion back, others bounce back to their former selves as soon as they're healthy enough to be on the field. But most get back on the field and then have to work their way back gradually to regain their same explosiveness.

With a tackle you'd worry about his ability to anchor his foot in the ground and drive block somebody in the run game. It's typical to come back from it fully healed, but at only a % of what you used to be capable of. It takes time to get back to yourself.

Same with ACLs (unless your name is Adrian Peterson).