🏈 Alabama RB Kenyan Drake 'will not have significant future issues or problems' from leg injury

[BAMANEWSBOT]

A young child askedNick Saban on Thursday about his favorite player, injured running back Kenyan Drake.

The Alabama coach may have given him much more of a detailed update than he ever envisioned, but it provided the clearest picture yet of Drake's path back to the field after breaking his leg last week at Ole Miss.

"This is not a really uncommon football injury," Saban said during his Thursday radio show. "He will not have any significant future issues or problems.

"This is something he'll recover from."

Saban, who went into great detail about the surgery Drake underwent, said Drake was in his office Thursday and appeared to be in good spirits. His rehabilitation has already begun, and he's anticipated to be "walking, jogging, doing some things" in six weeks. In eight to 10 weeks, he'll be "going full speed again."

Perhaps Saban was simply reading the room, but his prognosis seemed much rosier than it did Monday, when he said it would be eight to 10 weeks before Drake "could even think about playing football again."

"Kenyan's doing really, really well," Saban said. "I think he's got a really positive attitude about it. he said he's taking it one day at a time. He's working his rehab and doing really well."

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[TerryP]

Context?

To the media: "...would be eight to 10 weeks before Drake ''could even think about playing football again.'"

To a child: "This is not a really uncommon football injury," Saban said during his Thursday radio show. "He will not have any significant future issues or problems.

 

[jdpas29]

for a speed player of his type, it would be a small miracle if he came back and looked the same after this type of injury. that being said, i have yet to hear any clinical description of the injury. Just from the image and mechanism, i'm guessing a tib or fib frax with dislocation of the ankle. Getting the ankle back to being both mobile and stable enough for speed running is the tough part.

 

[psychojoe]

The encouraging thing to me was the report that there was no ligament or tendon damage. How close to his pre-injury self he will be, only time will tell.

 

[UAgrad93]

Agreed @psychojoe! Doctors will tell you all the time that you are better off with a break than having ligament or tendon damage.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I haven't followed the nature of the injury but there's a monstrous difference between a non-complex fracture, a dislocation, and a complex injury like Prothro's spiral fracture. I'm hoping he recovers fully.

 

[psychojoe]

A break is definitely better news than micro fractures, such as Ron Steele (and baseballer Matt Kemp) experienced. The surgery to fix is not always successful and the recovery process is slow.

 

[rick4bama]

Man I knew I should never come in to this post to read it. My knee right now is aching bad just reading this. I had my knee surgery in 1976. When I saw the way his foot was I just close my eye.