Latest Nfl Injuries Stories
Posted: Jun 24th 2009 6:52 PM ET by Dan Graziano (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Giants, NFL Injuries

The Giants announced in a press release today that linebacker
Michael Boley had arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn labrum in his hip and is likely to miss 8-to-10 weeks as he recovers. That obviously means Boley won't be ready for the start of training camp, and it throws into doubt his availability for the start of the regular season. But the hilarious way in which the Giants constructed this press release was designed to make sure you know that they don't consider this a very big deal at all.
The release is titled "Giants Rookie Signings; Boley Surgery." The first three paragraphs announce the signings of third-round pick
Ramses Barden and fifth-round pick
Rhett Bomar. Then, out of nowhere comes the totally unrelated fourth paragraph:
Posted: Jun 17th 2009 3:50 PM ET by Ryan Wilson (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Raiders, NFL Fans, NFL Injuries, NFL Training Camp

It would have been nice if, after the Raiders selected wide receiver
Darrius Heyward-Bey with the seventh-overall pick in April's draft, the talented but raw Maryland product quietly went about proving his critics wrong.
Instead, he suffered a hamstring injury two weeks after the draft (
speed kills, apparently), which made it easy for detractors to point out that
Michael Crabtree or
Jeremy Maclin -- two receivers everybody but
Al Davis had rated higher than Heyward-Bey -- might have been better choices.
Then again, Davis loves the vertical passing game, and to pull it off you need a strong-armed quarterback and a receiver who can blow past defenders.
JaMarcus Russell was an obvious choice for the former, and of all the available pass catchers in the 2009 draft, Heyward-Bey made too much sense (at least from Al's perspective) for the latter.
Posted: Jun 8th 2009 7:00 PM ET by Tom Mantzouranis (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Saints, NFL Injuries

Perhaps the Saints should stop looking at damaged goods to fix their weakside linebacker position?
In 2006, they brought in Anthony Simmons, a former Pro Bowler, to play there. It didn't matter that Simmons missed most of '04 and all of '05 with injury; he was supposedly healthy and low-risk/high-reward. He retired before his first game as a Saint ever came.
In '08, they brought in
Dan Morgan, a former Pro Bowler. It didn't matter that Morgan had a list of concussions that would make Steve Young commiserate, as well as a partially torn Achilles tendon, the collaborative effects of which forced him to miss almost all of '06 and '07. He was supposedly healthy and low-risk/high-reward. He retired before his first game as a Saint ever came.
Morgan then unretired earlier this year and claimed that the Saints, who still had his rights, were getting a healthy and motivated player.
On Monday, he retired. Again.
Posted: Jun 4th 2009 10:17 AM ET by Michael David Smith (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Eagles, NFL Injuries

The
Philadelphia Eagles have confirmed that running back
Brian Westbrook will have surgery to remove bone spurs in his right ankle, and the necessary recovery time of 2-3 months means that he might miss all of training camp and the preseason. And that leads me to wonder whether Westbrook is done as a legitimate starting running back in the NFL.
Posted: May 27th 2009 10:46 PM ET by JJ Cooper (RSS feed)
Filed Under: NFL Injuries

For NFL players, there's an growing understanding that they are making a set of tradeoffs.
If they are good enough to stick around in the league for a while, they will get a massive amount of money -- like take-care-of-your-great-grandkids rich. But in return, they will have the life expectancy of an Alaskan crab fisherman.
One of the main explanations for that is that many players simply carry too much weight. It's hard to take a look at a Pat Williams or a Shaun Rogers and not think that they are simply bigger and bulkier than what a human heart can handle.
Posted: May 26th 2009 10:15 PM ET by Ryan Wilson (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Patriots, AFC East, NFL Fans, NFL Injuries

For all you chumps who enjoyed a
Tom Brady-less 2008 New England Patriots team, I got some bad news for you: Dreamboat is back. And to hear
Peter King write it (in between uncontrollable sobs of joy, surely), Tommy Terrific is better, faster, stronger, so on and so forth.
Last September, Brady's season ended after just 15 plays. The Chiefs'
Bernard Pollard tackled him low and blew up his ACL in the process. Following knee surgery (and a couple subsequent procedures to deal with a staph infection), Brady spent the last seven months planning a marriage and plotting his comeback.
Posted: May 20th 2009 4:55 PM ET by Josh Alper (RSS feed)
Filed Under: 49ers, NFC West, NFL Injuries

We haven't even gotten to training camp, but teams are already losing players for the 2009 season. Veteran 49ers cornerback
Walt Harris tore his right ACL during practice on Tuesday and
will likely miss the entire season, according to Matt Maiocco of the
Santa Rosa Press Democrat.
The injury occurred when Harris got tangled up with the wide receiver
Dominique Ziegler during a drill. The Niners aren't ready to rule him out for the entire campaign, but the odds are against seeing Harris on the field again this season. Or any season.
Posted: May 17th 2009 10:25 AM ET by Ryan Wilson (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Patriots, AFC East, NFL Injuries

I've often argued -- unoriginally -- that, in general, NFL teams should avoid using first-round picks on running backs. Salary-cap friendly alternatives can often be found later in the draft, and other, harder-to-address needs -- like offensive line or wide receiver -- can be targeted in the early rounds.
There are exceptions: most recently
Adrian Peterson,
Steven Jackson and
LaDainian Tomlinson. But the NFL scrap heap is littered with
former first-round backs who never panned out. It's too early to classify
Laurence Maroney as such, but his three-year career has, so far, been underwhelming.
Posted: May 11th 2009 11:15 AM ET by Will Brinson (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Raiders, NFL Injuries, NFL Media Watch, NFL Rumors
Darrius Heyward-Bey was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the first round of the NFL draft for one reason: speed. The former Maryland wideout has tons of it, and while that may not be enough to justify his selection to
anyone with a brain most people, it was enough for
Al Davis.
Unfortunately, it appears Mr. Heyward-Bey's speed comes with a troublesome side effect: injury. That's right, DHB messed up his hamstring and
sat out the final day of minicamp because he was "running too fast."
Posted: May 9th 2009 5:31 PM ET by JJ Cooper (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Atlanta Falcons, NFC South, NFL Injuries

Hopefully for the Falcons, this will all be forgotten in two weeks, but first-round pick
Peria Jerry injured his knee during Saturday morning's minicamp practice.
Jerry bumped knees with another player, then left the field under his own power. Trainers were taking a look at his knee and giving him some ice, they should know if it's a problem or, more likely, no big deal by the end of the day.
It's most likely just a bruise, but you have to get nervous anytime a player limps off during minicamp -- already the Patriots
have lost one of their draft picks for the season with a torn ACL. If Jerry misses a couple of run-throughs while icing the knee, it's no big deal -- he's still around the team and is already starting to digest the playbook, but the Falcons can't have Jerry out with a significant injury -- he's too important to a very thin group of defensive tackles.