Julius Thomas Injury Notes: Pre-Fins Matchup

[overworkedirish]

I found this pretty interesting resource called "Questionable to Start" which is an injury database (albeit incomplete) tracking different types of injuries, past injuries of players, and makes somewhat more informed and educated evaluations of than the sports media machine.

Julius Thomas: http://questionabletostart.com/what-a-difference-a-side-makes/

What bothers me is that nobody seems to know if Thomas injured his right or his left ankle.

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Why does this matter, you ask? Because of Thomas’ injury history. In 2011, Thomas suffered a high ankle sprain in his right ankle. He missed five weeks with the injury. Five weeks is a little more severe than the average high ankle sprain, but isn’t completely out-of-line with the historical comparisons for this injury. What’s more alarming is that Thomas ended up having surgery on the same right ankle after the 2011 season was over. Renowned foot specialist Dr. Robert Anderson operated on Thomas in order to repair ligament damage in Thomas’ right ankle. You see where I’m going here, right?

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Update, November 18th: Finally, we have an answer. According to this piece by Mike Klis of the Denver Post, it is Julius Thomas’ left ankle that is injured, not the right ankle which he has a history with. Not sure why that took so long, but I’m glad to get an answer anyway.

 

[Travis34]

Interesting... thanks for posting.

 

[Ruckus45]

They are just delaying the report so the fins are forced to gameplan for him and waste time. Slow playing delays like this make me think he will be out

 

[nick1]

Interesting. I was sure he was going to play now idk. Still should be ready for him. Emmanuel too

 

[rrrrphin]

If he's reasonably healthy then it is a no-brainer that he plays, but if questionable then they have KC game after Miami. They may want to rest him for the more critical game on their schedule.... at least we can hope.