***Breece Hall Thread***
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It's also the reason that there isn't really anything the league can do about it. Breece's injury wasn't the result of some illegal hit or dirty play. The playing surface was grass. It was an ordinary play by any metric you want to measure it by. Nothing to blame it on other than bad luck. There's nothing the league can do to prevent injuries like that.
I tore my ACL playing basketball just landing from getting a rebound. I was 35. Dr. Greenwald (one of ISUs orthos) did my repair. He said if I was a D1 athlete, recovery would be 4 months, perhaps 5, My PT was 6 months because I was 35 and over-weight. What Dr. Greenwald told me a couple years ago when I saw him about my elbow is that after ACL, arthritis is very bad and players usually get 2-3 years before they have meniscus issues and that is the sign the end of playing is near. I hope he bounces back better, but I don't see a long career ahead of him now.
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Not only would he have won rookie of the year, he was in the process of breaking out to be one of the best backs in the league. Terrible news.
Agree - same for me. I used to say I juked out both the defender and the lower half of my leg.
Feels like the perfect encapsulation of Iowa State here tbh. Extreme promise and positive momentum wiped away by random **** and instead being replaced by tons of what ifs
When it’s non-contact or minimal contact, I kind of feel the knee was just a ticking time bomb. I’m kind of glad at this point that he left and got paid…
I seem to remember the whole aura behind an ACL tear and repair seemed to have changed after Adrian Peterson's ACL/MCL injury, Dec. 2011, and surgery. He came back in less than a year which was sort of unheard of until then. He did pretty well!
Here's hoping the medical gods can do their magic, and he can make a full recovery.
This is what you would think. Who knows. Your Orthopod probably knows what he is taking about. I hope he is wrong for many injured knees' sake.
When did you have your surgery?
It’s a good time to tear an ACL if there ever was. Surgical correction and post op rehab is actually pretty good for full return to function.
This saddens me so much. Such a great kid an amazing Cyclone.
This saddens me so much. Such a great kid an amazing Cyclone.
I don’t recall Breece ever looking that fast. He was shot out of a cannon on that run.
Sucks but Breece will be back.
That was an incredible play. The safety had like a 10 yard head start and Breece blew past him. Going into the draft the consensus seemed to be that he was fast, but lacked the "elite" speed. So much for that. Did scouts not watch his games last year? You don't rip off as many long runs as he did without having elite speed.
Trust me I get it. The poster made a statement wondering how he got hurt as the hit didn’t look violent. A lot of ACLs happen because the plant foot lands and the knee goes backwards snapping it.
ACL injuries definitely seem to be way more common now than from what I remember 10-20 years ago. How often does an NFL running back make it 4-5 years without an ACL tear? Seems like they all go through it.
I don't know how those guys in the 80's and 90'd played for 10-15 years with ACL issues. Back then it was basically a career ender.
I don't know how those guys in the 80's and 90'd played for 10-15 years with ACL issues. Back then it was basically a career ender.
