(05-01-2022, 07:44 AM)ChrisJagBoy Wrote:

(05-01-2022, 07:42 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: It really is and anyone who signs him is putting him at an unacceptable risk. It's sad for him but them's the breaks sometimes.

So has a doctor literally said playing football could put him at serious risk? I'm not familiar and it just seems odd that theres so many "experts" and personalities on twitter/TV talking about how shocked they are that he went undrafted.. I feel like if it was that cut and dry we would have heard it officially somewhere. I've heard nothing other than that he is injury prone outside of this board.

Yes, in this instance I have a source and the answer to your question is yes. Teams don't share their list of medical decisions with the media as that can damage draft strategy, but Ross flagged medically as an inordinate risk because of Klippel-Feil Syndrome and that's why he didn't get taken by anyone. His neck basically had disks that were congenitally fused from birth and that fusion pushes all the other disks out of alignment. The doc who did Ryan Shazier's surgery did a procedure that removed one of the other disks to create space for the fused ones and he eventually cleared Ross to play again, but there's a bunch of docs that don't agree that he should've. The other problems were Covid and a broken foot, but those are far less worrisome to an NFL executive than the neck thing. No one wants to be the guy who put him out there if he ends up paralyzed or worse.

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