• Please be aware we've switched the forums to their own URL. (again) You'll find the new website address to be www.steelernationforum.com Thanks
  • Please clear your private messages. Your inbox is close to being full.

Here is a future, "he would look good in Black n Gold".

He was definitely a big time prospect. But to be fair some of these teams are places for careers go to be broken.
I like picking up FAs from Chicago and Washington. Their talent evaluation.........not the greatest.
 
A pretty serious injury to overcome. Young missed over a year with a torn ACL and patellar tendon. He could be like Bush and not bounce back. Or be over valued if he does.
 
It seems every year a couple absolute surefire great prospects that are top five picks end up as busts…
 
bermudasteel said:
Buckeye can tell us...
Click to expand...
2020 when he won DROY.
2021 was first the ACL and then the Achilles. Those injuries kept him out until the last 3 games of Washington's 2022 season.
 
I don't think he was a bust. He was a good player just got but by the injury bug. Going to be tough to recover from all that
 
SteelBuckeye said:
2020 when he won DROY.
2021 was first the ACL and then the Achilles. Those injuries kept him out until the last 3 games of Washington's 2022 season.
Click to expand...
I don't think it was an Achilles tendon injury. It was a Patellar tendon which gives the knee stability.

I am unsure if the tendon was part of his original knee injury or not. I read an article that said they took a part of the Patellar tendon from his other knee to repair his ACL injury. It could have been that.
 
steelcan58 said:
I don't think it was an Achilles tendon injury. It was a Patellar tendon which gives the knee stability.

I am unsure if the tendon was part of his original knee injury or not. I read an article that said they took a part of the Patellar tendon from his other knee to repair his ACL injury. It could have been that.
Click to expand...
You sir, are absolutely correct. It was the Patellar tendon. And he had a total knee reconstruction as a result of both the ACL and Patellar tendon rupture.
Hmmm, I'm sitting in a knee immobilizer as we type due to a failed patellar tendon repair and a missed PTFL ligament tear. Looking at total knee reconstruction myself. The timeline for recovery they are giving me, a 54 year old guy in slightly above average health for my age is, "around a year. Give or take a couple of months."
The full knee reconstruction is actually supposed to bring you back closer to 100% of where you were than just an ACL and Patellar tendon repair.
I wonder what it does for a high end athlete and what the recovery time is for those guys.
 
It
SteelBuckeye said:
You sir, are absolutely correct. It was the Patellar tendon. And he had a total knee reconstruction as a result of both the ACL and Patellar tendon rupture.
Hmmm, I'm sitting in a knee immobilizer as we type due to a failed patellar tendon repair and a missed PTFL ligament tear. Looking at total knee reconstruction myself. The timeline for recovery they are giving me, a 54 year old guy in slightly above average health for my age is, "around a year. Give or take a couple of months."
The full knee reconstruction is actually supposed to bring you back closer to 100% of where you were than just an ACL and Patellar tendon repair.
I wonder what it does for a high end athlete and what the recovery time is for those guys.
Click to expand...
It's really tough to put an exact time on it. There's the physical recovery and then just as important the mental recovery. I think we just all saw with Bush, some never recover mentally.
 
steelcan58 said:
It

It's really tough to put an exact time on it. There's the physical recovery and then just as important the mental recovery. I think we just all saw with Bush, some never recover mentally.
Click to expand...
well, to be fair, dudes from Meatchicken are for the most part mental midgets (Woodley and Wormley excluded).
 
SteelBuckeye said:
You sir, are absolutely correct. It was the Patellar tendon. And he had a total knee reconstruction as a result of both the ACL and Patellar tendon rupture.
Hmmm, I'm sitting in a knee immobilizer as we type due to a failed patellar tendon repair and a missed PTFL ligament tear. Looking at total knee reconstruction myself. The timeline for recovery they are giving me, a 54 year old guy in slightly above average health for my age is, "around a year. Give or take a couple of months."
The full knee reconstruction is actually supposed to bring you back closer to 100% of where you were than just an ACL and Patellar tendon repair.
I wonder what it does for a high end athlete and what the recovery time is for those guys.
Click to expand...
That sucks Steel. Seems like you’ve had the issues with your Knee for quite sometime now. How the heck did they miss the ligameant tear? Obviously that was a setback It’s so much harder to comeback fully as you get older. But it will be done.
 
Steelmann said:
That sucks Steel. Seems like you’ve had the issues with your Knee for quite sometime now. How the heck did they miss the ligameant tear? Obviously that was a setback It’s so much harder to comeback fully as you get older. But it will be done.
Click to expand...
Yeah, the guy who did the patellar tendon surgery never sent me to get a "functional ultrasound" ... or any ultrasound. Just relied on the MRI.
The guy who was going to do the patellar revision (fix what the other guy messed up), sent me to get the ultrasound and there was the second tear; big as ****.
So, now I'm waiting to hear back from two specialists as to what my options are.
Thanks for the support!
 
Not nice Steel. I know a couple rock climbers that ended up with severe patellar tender injuries. Suffered during their climbs, they went through some tough rehab. They are doing well now. I remember going on a forum for people that had that type of injury so I could be a little more informed. I was sure surprised at the amount of people that had things missed and been misdiagnosed.
I mean we are all human and people make mistakes. But this type of mistake can **** up peoples lives for years.
Their should be some type of double or triple check for these types of injuries so nothing will be missed.
In the long run that would be a heck of a lot cheaper than a misdiagnose and subsequent surgery.

Keep up the good fight Steel
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top