Knixkik wrote:I think he will be back at earliest by December, at latest by January. It will be earlier in the season than most think though.
James Andrews is a surgeon and considered the top ACL guy in pretty much the entire world. His influence is so pervasive, it's even rumored that CAA offered him a lifetime contract to leave the Tide/Redskins to work for them exclusively.
He was interviewed right after he handled Adrian Peterson, who had, by record, one of the fastest ACL recoveries in all of modern sports history, and said the unfair thing was that Peterson was an outlier by every conceivable measure. That every future ACL recovery would be compared to Peterson's timeline, but that Peterson was a genetic freak on a scale no one has ever seen before. He made three basic points
A) No one knows if a player will ever return to his previous form, or not.
B) No one knows a players recovery timeline
C) The line of medical privacy and professional ethics gets blurred badly when it comes to professional athletes ( He pointed out physicians trying to get attention to themselves would comment publicly on non patients and on things like XRays or charts gleaned on video or in the background of interviews. )
No one knows. Sucks for fans, but no one knows.