Johnny Newton needs more surgery

[CJD]

Oh wow, that's brutal.

I was reading the initial reports of this and it isn't clear if the Commanders were aware of this injury when they drafted him.

They mentioned that they found it when the medical staff was doing a check up on the other foot injury

Quote:Commanders medical staff discovered the new injury while conducting a check up of his original injury, the team said.

This quote makes it sound like this was literally just discovered. So I'm not sure if this would have showed up during pre-draft check ups.

With that said, if the Bengals conducted a medical exam on him and somehow foresaw this, then good on them for not drafting him in the first round or moving up to get him in the second round.