(05-01-2022, 08:32 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

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

I honestly didn't realize how bad it was. He's willing to play though. He wants somebody to take a chance on him. I get the notion of not wanting to be the coach or personnel department that gives him that said chance and then he ends up ruined permanently for the rest of his life. 

Interesting. Poor kid man. To get this far to your dream only to have it swept away from you just like that. I know it's not the first time we've all heard that story and it certainly won't be the last. Still, bummer.

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