John ross

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(03-13-2017, 09:33 AM)Jpoore Wrote: the big one is microfracture surgery though. Its usuallly regarded as a ticking time bomb.

There's no guarantee of that. Athletes like Steve Yzerman, Jason Kidd, John Stockton, and Kenyan Martin had microfracture surgery during their careers and were able to return to pre-injury form. Heck, Vontaze Burfict had microfracture surgery two years ago and is fine now.

Amar'e Stoudemire had the surgery in Oct 2015 and tried returning in March 2016. It was discovered that was not enough time for recovery, buy Stoudemire returned for the following season and was also back to form.

You may point to Greg Oden, who had microfracture surgery in 2007 and missed the entire season, but he returned the following season. However, he ended up having a second microfracture surgery and his career was practically over. Here's the entire point of me mentioning this though...the second surgery was on the other knee, not the same one.

The expected recovery time with athletes that have had the surgery in the past decade has been about a year. John Ross had the surgery in 2014. He was clearly recovered enough from it to have a stellar 2016 season.

If John Ross had microfracture surgery this offseason, I could understand the worry of taking a player like Ross as 9. He may not ever recover from such a surgery. But Ross is healed from that and has proven he can play on his surgically repaired knees.

Essentially all you are saying is that you FEAR he will injure himself again and don't want to take that risk. I'm saying that it's irrational to think he will reinjure his knee(s) because he's already proven to be recovered, and there are many examples of professional athletes that have recovered well from such a surgery. Plus, he's such an explosive playmaker that could help this offense that the reward is worth the risk.