Tee Higgins, down the road in '24?

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(11-16-2023, 01:34 AM)J24 Wrote: Injuries are a matter of Luck. Deciding to not sign a player off injury history(unless it's a catastrophic injury; which Tee doesn't have ) is not a smart way to go  about business. 

For example look at Jonathan Joseph vs Leon Hall.  Hall didn't miss a game for his first 4 seasons while Joseph missed 13 games.  The Bengals picked Hall over(who later tore both Achilles) over Joseph. 

Another example would be Carlos Dunlap he missed 10 games in his first three seasons but in his next 7 seasons he missed only 2 games.

Sometimes a serious injury can just be bad luck, but there's a lot of guys just predisposed to either injuries or certain types of injuries.

In the last 5 years Tee Higgins has had 5 hamstring injuries. That's not luck, that's predisposition. He's also had 3 ankle injuries in the last 6 calendar years.

Randomly blowing out your ACL once because a guy rolls up on your legs, or getting a concussion from a brutal helmet-to-helmet hit is a matter of luck. Thomas Davis having 3 ACL tears in 3 years or Vontaze Burfict having 7 concussions in 6 years is not luck.

Some guys just have weaker parts of their body and some guys are just more injury prone.

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As for Dunlap, you might want to check on some of those "missed" games. He was a healthy scratch for those 4 games in his 1st year.

They also didn't pick Hall over Joseph because of injuries but because Joseph wanted more guaranteed money and the Bengals were being real cheap then. Hall was willing to accept the less guaranteed money.