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DeVante Parker had foot surgery this morning

Phinatic8u said:
He's finally using the benefits of the NFL.

Something he prob couldn't get in college.
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Good point, but I wonder why this didn't happen sooner, like right after the draft before OTA's?
 
DolphinDevil28 said:
Right, I'm not disagreeing here. I'm just saying we'd have known if he re-broke it in practice. It may have just not healed 100% properly and required a fixture. The 8-10 weeks off is due to more than a screw replacement, but it gives him ample time to be ready to contribute heavily on opening day.
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Contribute what? He'll effectively get no snaps for the rest of OTA, Training Camp, and Preseason. With Lazor's offense and the route trees they run it's going to be quite a while until we see anything meaningful out of the kid. Anyone who thinks he's going to come in right away Week 1 and make an impact is being unreasonable.

How was this kind of thing not diagnosed before the draft by team doctors?
 
Hope it's not due to organized activities again
 
enigmatics said:
Contribute what? He'll effectively get no snaps for the rest of OTA, Training Camp, and Preseason. With Lazor's offense and the route trees they run it's going to be quite a while until we see anything meaningful out of the kid. Anyone who thinks he's going to come in right away Week 1 and make an impact is being unreasonable.

How was this kind of thing not diagnosed before the draft by team doctors?
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enigmatics posting the word unreasonable...
 
Big set back for the kid. If this was a veteran receiver I would say he is fine. Not a rookie.

I could see the top three receivers being productive enough along with a strong TE play keeping Parker off the field.
 
Brazzi said:
Hope it's not due to organized activities again
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I'm like 90% sure there was a "report" (i.e., tweet) yesterday that he came up limping. Regardless, he re-injured or aggravated a preexisting problem. In that sense the OTA part is irrelevant because there was a structural issue and only a matter of time before it was going to be a problem. Perhaps (maybe?) had something to do with him falling to us in the first place.
 
Hayden Fox said:
Big set back for the kid. If this was a veteran receiver I would say he is fine. Not a rookie.

I could see the top three receivers being productive enough along with a strong TE play keeping Parker off the field.
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Odell Beckham didn't have any problems catching up after missing the majority of training camp, preseason and the first four games of the regular season last year as a rookie.
 
Phinatic8u said:
So people still worried?
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I'm concerned in the sense drafting kids this high with preexisting issues from college surgery expresses a PROBABILITY the complications of the injury will be exposed at the NFL level. The weekly grind of the NFL puts a premium on durability -- and at least for now, this kids durability has to be somewhat in question.

So we can all hope (or pray to Shiva etc.) this "corrective" procedure ENDS the problem and the kid is 100% good-to-go from here on out. But the fact that he's had this problem reoccur (at least to a degree) has to temper our expectations accordingly.

In addition to that, it just seems Lady Luck has not been visiting Davie very often.

But hey, fortunes change. We're overdue!

BNF (with flippers crossed)
 
Vol&dolfan said:
Odell Beckham didn't have any problems catching up after missing the majority of training camp, preseason and the first four games of the regular season last year as a rookie.
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How often does that happen? Where a rookie misses all the time and sets the world on fire when he comes back?

Would need to know a lot more about how Parker is like Beckham to determine that (not to mention the similarities of the offenses), otherwise it's a real surface comparison.
 
enigmatics said:
How often does that happen? Where a rookie misses all the time and sets the world on fire when he comes back?

Would need to know a lot more about how Parker is like Beckham to determine that (not to mention the similarities of the offenses), otherwise it's a real surface comparison.
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The point is that a rookie can still have an impact after missing sometime.
 
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