(06-06-2019, 01:45 PM)The_Franchise_QB Wrote: Nobody misses this much time in football due to a “bruise”. Just sounds weird at this point, not at a panic level yet but there is some concern. Hopefully everything is ok come training camp.

Yeah, they can.  A bone bruise can be as painful, and linger just as long as a broken bone.  When that bone bruise is on the knee of your top draft pick, and you're a team that has seen a player of similar pedigree go on the IR before he played a single snap in the past, you're going to bubble wrap the guy and let him completely heal. Don't try to read more into this than is actually real.

Considering these top draft picks have been going since spring camp with their schools last year, giving the guy a break to rest up and heal up is a good thing.

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