Quote:While the weight lifting is certainly not a bad sign, Lattimore was doing that stuff with the Niners just fine too. Nerve firings to tell your muscles to do a slow, controlled, linear lift is way different than nerve firings telling muscles to do everything they have to do in fractions of seconds in every direction on a football field surrounded by other world class athletes. If the communication/delay between nerve firings/muscle responses is even a little bit off from 100% you're just not going to be able to perform at an NFL level. 

 

To bring up another Lattimore example, the Niners website on October 24th 2014 says he's "While he's getting back to his 100% self, Lattimore looks like his old self. Sprinting, jogging, doing the cuts that he has to do to get back on the field. No matter what happens the rest of this year, Lattimore is a great add for the future and should be a great back for the 49ers." That's an encouraging quote! Unfortunately, literally two weeks later on November 5th he announced his retirement. 

To be fair, Marcus Lattimore's leg was practically hanging from his body at the knee. He tore every single ligament you could possibly tear at the knee. That isn't really the case with Jaylon Smith, who tore his ACL and LCL

 

But I do see where you're coming from, and that's a valuable tidbit of information about what he might feel on a quick twitch.

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