stillers4me
05-22-2018, 05:00 PM
Ben Roethlisberger agrees.
A torn MCL ended James Conner’s first NFL season (http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2017/12/18/james-conner-injury-update-marcus-gilbert-antonio-brown/stories/201712180169) after 13 games and change. He’d like you to know something about that.
“Football’s football,” the Steelers running back said Tuesday after the first organized team activity of the spring. “That MCL injury, it’s hard to name a running back in the NFL without a knee injury.”
Conner is right; it’s not hard. It’s really, really easy, in fact. All he has to do is look toward Le’Veon Bell’s empty locker for an example of his best-case scenario. Bell’s 2015 season ended in November against the Bengals, when a Vontaze Burfict tackle bent his knee backward and tore — you guessed it — his MCL..........
read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2018/05/22/steelers-OTAs-leveon-bell-james-conner-jaylen-samuels/stories/201805220113?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1527017738
A torn MCL ended James Conner’s first NFL season (http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2017/12/18/james-conner-injury-update-marcus-gilbert-antonio-brown/stories/201712180169) after 13 games and change. He’d like you to know something about that.
“Football’s football,” the Steelers running back said Tuesday after the first organized team activity of the spring. “That MCL injury, it’s hard to name a running back in the NFL without a knee injury.”
Conner is right; it’s not hard. It’s really, really easy, in fact. All he has to do is look toward Le’Veon Bell’s empty locker for an example of his best-case scenario. Bell’s 2015 season ended in November against the Bengals, when a Vontaze Burfict tackle bent his knee backward and tore — you guessed it — his MCL..........
read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2018/05/22/steelers-OTAs-leveon-bell-james-conner-jaylen-samuels/stories/201805220113?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1527017738