So, whats the deal with MJD? (1 Viewer)

[shortbow]

At the end of the season I heard he had a really bad knee injury he had been playing through and that even after surgery he would never be even close to 100% again.

Any news?

 

[anakin]

Nope, playing it close to the vest as any multi-millionaire would.

 

[Prinefan]

Wait and see. He's a hold if you have him.

 

[shortbow]

Yeah I own him in a deeper league where we keep 3 keepers but only 1 per position.

My other RB is Bradshaw so its a toss up still.

 

[Fear & Loathing]

At the end of the season I heard he had a really bad knee injury he had been playing through and that even after surgery he would never be even close to 100% again.

Any news?

I don't think anybody has said the bolded outright. It's been speculated that the knee could be an issue the rest of his career (like Torry Holt or Antonio Bryant) because he played with not only a meniscus tear but a bone-on-bone condition. I haven't seen anybody authoritatively state that he will never be 100% again, but plenty have suggested that the knee is now a long-term concern. I'm staying away in redraft, keeper, and Dynasty formats.Rotoworld player page.

 

[CompetitiveEdgeFootball]

I read somewhere "bone on bone" referring to the knee. Don't much like the sound of that. The worst thing about it all? You won't get anything close to fair value for what he's really worth if you try to move him at this point.

 

[_lurker_]

At the end of the season I heard he had a really bad knee injury he had been playing through and that even after surgery he would never be even close to 100% again.

Any news?

I don't think anybody has said the bolded outright.

+1 Raw speculation at best.

Also, he did put up 1600 total yards on the injured knee. If anything, the knee should feel better next year than last year.

 

[Fear & Loathing]

+1

Raw speculation at best.

Also, he did put up 1600 total yards on the injured knee. If anything, the knee should feel better next year than last year.

That's quite the leap of faith for a player who had a bone-on-bone condition.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

That's quite the leap of faith for a player who had a bone-on-bone condition.

I'm an MJD owner in several leagues and agree that pretty much the only choice you have is to hold and hope. There's too much risk to pay what sellers are asking, and too hard to get a buyer to give anything worthwhile for him.On the other hand... unless the Jags' training staff are just flat out idiots it's hard to believe they'd have let him play all season with a condition that was career threatening. It's not like Drew had an acute injury at the end of the year - he played all year with it. You'd think that the medical staff in J'ville was monitoring it pretty closely and, given the teams' $$ investment there, that they'd have shut him down before permanent damage was done.

 

[SpineDoc]

It does make me wonder if we hear the dreaded "microfracture surgery" somewhere in his future. Hopefully rehab goes well and he can still be productive going forward.

 

[Fear & Loathing]

It does make me wonder if we hear the dreaded "microfracture surgery" somewhere in his future. Hopefully rehab goes well and he can still be productive going forward.

I think there's a good chance his surgery was of the microfracture variety. Teams have downplayed microfracture as a lesser procedure at the time only to admit it down the road. MJD's comments hinted that was microfracture.

 

[Fear & Loathing]

That's quite the leap of faith for a player who had a bone-on-bone condition.

I'm an MJD owner in several leagues and agree that pretty much the only choice you have is to hold and hope. There's too much risk to pay what sellers are asking, and too hard to get a buyer to give anything worthwhile for him.On the other hand... unless the Jags' training staff are just flat out idiots it's hard to believe they'd have let him play all season with a condition that was career threatening. It's not like Drew had an acute injury at the end of the year - he played all year with it. You'd think that the medical staff in J'ville was monitoring it pretty closely and, given the teams' $$ investment there, that they'd have shut him down before permanent damage was done.

Fair enough. I don't disagree with any of what you're saying here, though the Jags staff wouldn't be the first to have misjudged an injury.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

Fair enough. I don't disagree with any of what you're saying here, though the Jags staff wouldn't be the first to have misjudged an injury.

That's the worry for sure, and I think there's a real chance they did miss it. Just presenting the optimistic case too.

 

[cvnpoka]

It does make me wonder if we hear the dreaded "microfracture surgery" somewhere in his future. Hopefully rehab goes well and he can still be productive going forward.

sometimes microfracture is hopeless for a "bone on bone" condition. see brandon roys situation in the nba. id proly feel more comfortable if he had mf actually.

 

[blackbird001]

That's quite the leap of faith for a player who had a bone-on-bone condition.

I'm an MJD owner in several leagues and agree that pretty much the only choice you have is to hold and hope. There's too much risk to pay what sellers are asking, and too hard to get a buyer to give anything worthwhile for him.On the other hand... unless the Jags' training staff are just flat out idiots it's hard to believe they'd have let him play all season with a condition that was career threatening. It's not like Drew had an acute injury at the end of the year - he played all year with it. You'd think that the medical staff in J'ville was monitoring it pretty closely and, given the teams' $$ investment there, that they'd have shut him down before permanent damage was done.

Fair enough. I don't disagree with any of what you're saying here, though the Jags staff wouldn't be the first to have misjudged an injury.

...or the first to put the pedal to the metal regardless if they liked who was next in line (jennings/karim). It's definitely a win now league and the Jags were in the mix all year due to the stumbling of the Colts.

 

[bonesman]

I gotta hate on MJD for talking all that smack about Cutler on Twitter but not being there for my championship game week 16. He knows the implications of week 16 across the fantasy universe.... but I guess the "Urban Meyer rule" was in effect for him that week.