(02-09-2022, 03:26 AM)TheDuke007 Wrote:

(02-08-2022, 10:34 AM)snowwolf776 Wrote: yes it is a bad injury,and lots of times a player is never the same. There are some rare times though the player comes back the same as whn he got hurt.  Exsample Joe Burroew of Bengals. he tore his ACL  his rookie season,and is now in Super Bowl with the Bengals.

His rookie season was  in 2020.  I'm not saying Entine will lead jags to a super bowl team is a Looooooooooooooong way from that. I'm just saying a player can come back the same after a serious injury,its just very rare.

This study suggests otherwise:

Outcomes of Lisfranc Injuries in the National Football League - PubMed (nih.gov)

For those who don't want to click and read it, the conclusion was as follows:

Conclusion: More than 90% of NFL athletes who sustained Lisfranc injuries returned to play in the NFL at a median of 11.1 months from time of injury. Offensive and defensive players experienced a decrease in performance after return from injury that did not reach statistical significance compared with their respective control groups over a similar time period.

Maybe I’m reading it wrong, but it looks to me as if this quote is saying that, while the players coming back from the Lisfranc injury  saw a decrease in performance, it typically was not particularly significant relative to other players. Basically, that it often is not a career ending or career ruining injury. I also, only read this quote, not the entire study, so I don’t know if the other control groups consisted of players who sustained other injuries or players who weren’t injured or both. 

I’m still excited about ETN despite the injury. MJD came off a Lisfranc in his eighth season at almost 30 and had 1100 yards and 5 TDs. ETN is 21(?). Maybe he’ll never be what he would have been, or maybe he’ll have a shorter career than he otherwise would have, but he could still be a good NFL running back. BTW I don’t like that we picked him at 25.

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