Nathan Cottrell

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Seeing on TOS Nathan suffered a knee injury and is out indefinitely. Anybody able to confirm?

I hate to hear about this, he's one of my favorite players in the '15 class!
 
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Damn
That majorly sucks. I was looking forward to seeing kid play. He worked so hard.
 

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Bummer. Praying it's just a sprain. Mentally it's very hard to come in as a tr-fr and get injured right away. Particularly if you haven't had any injuries of any severity on the high school level. But as Isaiah, Jamal Golden, and others have shown an ACL is an injury people can come back from and have a very productive career. Hate it for Nathan, his family, and the team.

Fingers are crossed.
 
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When did Jamal Golden ever injure an ACL? He had a shoulder a couple years ago I believe. Whatever, your point remains the same. I feel sorry for the kid suffering an injury of any kind. Hopefully it is minor.
 
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I'm a youngin, so i've gotta ask. How common were ACL tears in the 80s and early 90s? I wonder if these guys have more muscle these days and are putting more strain on their joints.
 
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Frenchise said:
I'm a youngin, so i've gotta ask. How common were ACL tears in the 80s and early 90s? I wonder if these guys have more muscle these days and are putting more strain on their joints.
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I have a vague impression that ACL and similar injuries in the past had to do with turf issues. They almost always had to do with someone getting a cleat stuck in the turf or a problem with an artificial surface. It seemed like there was always an extenuating circumstance. You may be correct that today with the more jacked up players there is more strain put on the weakest link in their skeletal-muscle system. Hence guys today seem to get them just making a cut. But I am just speculating.
 
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Frenchise said:
I'm a youngin, so i've gotta ask. How common were ACL tears in the 80s and early 90s? I wonder if these guys have more muscle these days and are putting more strain on their joints.
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I get the feeling they've been common over the years, but were just known as bad knee injuries. And now that there is surgery to repair those injuries, there's more attention to MCL and ACL. Before, when a knee got wrecked, you were just done. Much like pitchers who hurt their elbows just hurt their elbows and were done. Now, they can get those torn UCLs fixed and try to pitch again.
 
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Frenchise said:
I'm a youngin, so i've gotta ask. How common were ACL tears in the 80s and early 90s? I wonder if these guys have more muscle these days and are putting more strain on their joints.
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I'm pretty young myself so I can't speak with much authority but I imagine that with the media prevalence you hear about it a lot more than you used to. Doesn't necessarily mean it happened less.
 
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