AJ Green hurt; Will miss 6-8 weeks

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(08-01-2019, 12:32 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Return to competition  from a Grade III ankle sprain is usually 6-8 weeks with or without surgery, not one year.

AJ's ankle was everted and rotated when Kirkpatrick landed on it. This mechanism of injury would result in a medial ankle sprain most likely involving the deltoid ligament. Since this only accounts for about 5% of ankle sprains, there is a 95% chance this isn't the same type of ankle sprain that Eifert suffered.

Edited to add:  Well, upon further digging . . .

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cincyjungle.com/platform/amp/2016/8/9/12405442/tyler-eifert-recovery-timetable-could-be-longer-than-thought

Crap.


No one came out and reported Eifert had a Grade III ankle sprain, either, which is the main reason why fans were wondering why it was taking so long for him to recover from a sprain.

The usually return to competition from a Grade II ankle sprain is 2-4 weeks. Surgery isn't indicated for a Grade II sprain because the risks outweigh the benefits and the prognosis goes from 2-4 weeks to 6-8 weeks for AJ. The prognosis indicates it wasn't a simple clean out. That's a lie. They did a ligament repair.

lol auto correct. I meant to say "Grade 3 is a full TEAR" auto correct must have thought it was better to say year...

Anyways, I wouldn't be surprised if Green was out all season still. I would be surprised if he came back before week 9. I'm just basing this off of what Eifert went through. Hopefully the grade 3 sprain wasn't as bad as Eiferts and Green can recover a lot faster.

I was really excited to see what Dalton, Green, Mixon, Eifert, and Boyd could do. Even behind a bad OL.