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The third overall pick in this year’s NFL draft will miss his entire rookie season with an injury suffered at his first day of practice.

Jaguars pass rusher Dante Fowler is out for the season with a torn ACL, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports.

Fowler, a talented edge rusher from Florida, was expected to make an instant impact on Jacksonville’s defense. Instead, at the first practice of today’s rookie minicamp he went down awkwardly, immediately grabbed his knee, and had to be helped off the field. It looked bad, and now it’s been confirmed that it was every bit as bad as it looked.

Just a week ago, Fowler was arriving in Jacksonville as a player who was supposed to make a big splash as a rookie. Now he’ll spend his rookie season rehabbing, and hoping he can be the player in 2016 that Jacksonville wanted him to be this year.
 
Jags can't catch a break. They're the Browns of Florida.
 
That is sad for that kid, reminds me of Spence. Hopefully he makes a full recovery, fortunately he was a high pick so they will have incentive to do the right thing.
 
damn shame, wish the young man luck in his recovery
 
feel sad for them ..poor jags .. that's is brutal
 
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jags are cursed
 
I was planning on seeing them play a couple times this season...guess I'll reduce my visitations now to the pool area...
 
Also, in the news, Randy "doobie" Gregory had to be escorted off the practice field by a trainer in Irving today. Heat exhaustion was the prognosis...it was a high of 83 degrees in Irving today. :wtf:
 
keslerclan said:
Also, in the news, Randy "doobie" Gregory had to be escorted off the practice field by a trainer in Irving today. Heat exhaustion was the prognosis...it was a high of 83 degrees in Irving today. :wtf:
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Humidity is very high as well right now
 
These players are sometimes too thoroughbred. With the 4.5 40s on 245 lb frames. When you are blowing out your knee in 11-11 thud drills in helmets and shorts something isn't right. I run at my bantam kids like that all the time when we break into group. The piano wires are just too tight. It can't go any further. I think the body is pretty much at max potential before total uselessness from a lack of durability.
 
Some teams are just snakebit.
 
It's the curse of Tim Tebow I tells ya! The Jagoffs will never be good and Manning will not win a ring in Denver until Tebow wins a ring or dies!
 
SteelerSask said:
These players are sometimes too thoroughbred. With the 4.5 40s on 245 lb frames. When you are blowing out your knee in 11-11 thud drills in helmets and shorts something isn't right. I run at my bantam kids like that all the time when we break into group. The piano wires are just too tight. It can't go any further. I think the body is pretty much at max potential before total uselessness from a lack of durability.
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I've heard the following theories regarding knee ligament injuries.

The muscles in general are too strong for the ligaments.

The hammy's aren't strong enough in relation to the quads.
 
Troglodyte said:
I've heard the following theories regarding knee ligament injuries.

The muscles in general are too strong for the ligaments.

The hammy's aren't strong enough in relation to the quads.
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That would be my opinion. You can't strengthen the ligaments substantially and the force is exceeding capacity. A winch capable of pulling 5000 lbs but the cable is only 3000 lb test. 245 lb shouldn't run 4.5 40s. They simply shouldn't.
 
SteelerSask said:
That would be my opinion. You can't strengthen the ligaments substantially and the force is exceeding capacity. A winch capable of pulling 5000 lbs but the cable is only 3000 lb test. 245 lb shouldn't run 4.5 40s. They simply shouldn't.
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I sure as hell hope our 270 lb first round pick (4.56 40) proves to be the exception.
 
Feel bad for the kid, but not for Peyton and the donkeys
 
Troglodyte said:
I've heard the following theories regarding knee ligament injuries.

The muscles in general are too strong for the ligaments.

The hammy's aren't strong enough in relation to the quads.
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This is normally the case when you add muscle, strength and power quickly.That's always been the problem with performance enhancing substances too. The connective tissue is always fighting to keep up. If you add in any type of imbalance between muscle groups the risk goes up even more. Our joints are the weak links in the chain and some guys just have bad luck.
 
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