Ross Out For Week 1 & 2

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(09-08-2017, 11:50 AM)ochocincos Wrote: The big discrepancy for Ross among the fans is some fans have labeled him "injury prone" because of his previous college injuries and pulling a hammy at the Combine.
They have a big lack of confidence in his ability to stay healthy and feel that it was a bad pick because of his history.
The fans on his side point to how he played a full season at Washington on those surgically repaired knees and was dominant, so the ability is there.

But there are guys like Eifert who were not super "injury prone" at all in college yet have had numerous issues staying healthy in the NFL.
And on the flip side, there are players who had severe injuries in college but went onto having pretty good, healthy NFL careers. The one notable player that comes to mind for me is Willis McGahee.

And some have brought out the argument of "microfracture surgery is a ticking time bomb", yet there have been multiple high profile athletes across many sports who have had the surgery and been able to still play well after that surgery. Vontaze Burfict is one, as well as Steve Yzerman, Jason Kidd, John Stockton, and Amar'e Stoudemire.
Sure, there are players whose careers flopped after such injuries, but there's obvious evidence that players CAN recover from such injuries and surgeries.

The bottom line is that when it comes to injuries, you cannot predict whether a player is guaranteed to be injury-prone for the remainder of their professional career just because of some previous injuries, especially if those injuries happened before they started their professional career.

Just sit back, relax, and see how Ross's career pans out.

Munoz had 2 horrible knees coming out of college and did pretty well in the NFL