Beason

That shit bought tears to my eyes.

 

Great video. If the whole D embraces that attitude and work ethic, we will improve. I hope Beason can light a fire under them. The heel looks great and those drills tested it rather well.

 

Speak on it....Panthers

 

Amazing a person could come back from a torn achilles in what 7 months?

 

wow

 

well I don't think we need to go LB w the first pick...

 

Yeah that video pretty much rules out Kuechly for me, hopefully the guys that actually make the decisions feel likewise.

 

You guys are grossly overreacting to a Youtube video. We won't know how he's recovered until he's actually playing again, but the history of players coming back from Achilles injuries is not good. They usually don't ever get back to the level they were before the injury.

 

http://www.lowerextremityreview.com/article/return-to-football-after-achilles-tendon-rupture

Of the 31 players who sustained an Achilles tendon rupture, 21 (64%) returned to play in the NFL at an average of 11 months after injury. In the three seasons following their return, those 21 players saw significant decreases in games played and power ratings compared to the three seasons preceding the injury.

The percentage of players returning to play at the NFL level is consistent with a meta-analysis performed by Bhandari4 in 2002. The authors reported return to function rates of 63% for patients treated nonoperatively and 71% for those treated operatively. If we assume that all the NFL players were treated operatively, as would be the standard for young athletes, the return to play rate of 64% is slightly lower than the 71% reported in the meta-analysis. This difference could be attributed to the excessive demands placed on the operatively repaired Achilles tendon in NFL players combined with a body size, strength, and explosiveness that would further increase these demands.

The length of time to allow full activity after Achilles tendon repair is generally thought to be four to six months.4-6 The 11 months needed to return to play as a professional football player seems considerably longer. However, there is a major difference between allowing full activity and returning to play in the NFL. Even when the typical patient is allowed to participate in full activity, it does not mean that he or she is adequately rehabilitated to perform at maximal efforts. Studies to determine maximal improvement after surgical treatment are lacking in the orthopedic literature.

Furthermore, in the reviewed 21 NFL skill players who returned to play, there were significant decreases in games played per season (11.67 games per year pre-injury versus 6.17 games per year postinjury) when averaged over the three seasons before the injury and the three seasons after the injury.3 There were also decreases averaging nearly 50% in power ratings of the returning players for the three seasons after the injury compared to the three seasons before the injury. These data indicate that even in players able to return to their former level of play, the quality of play may suffer permanently.

 

Yikes. Thanks for posting that. I still think I'd give him a chance to prove himself before writing him off. If we didn't have so many other needs, then perhaps I wouldn't, but when healthy he's not only the leader of the defense, but one of only 2 elite players (Johnson being the other) that we have on that side of the ball.