March 18th, 2022 at 11:36 AM ^
Awful luck but hopefully not too serious.
March 18th, 2022 at 11:41 AM ^
Hopefully it's nothing big and he's back up and crushing ASAP.
March 18th, 2022 at 11:47 AM ^
Praying it isn't anything serious. The kid doesn't deserve to have that happen on pro days of all days...or any day.
March 18th, 2022 at 11:49 AM ^
It is my sincere hope that Ojabo has not sustained a serious injury.
March 18th, 2022 at 11:50 AM ^
Non contact leg injury? Shit.
March 18th, 2022 at 11:51 AM ^
I'm sure a huge reason he left early was to get an NFL contract before he sustained any injuries in college, and now this happens. Life ain't fair.
March 18th, 2022 at 12:15 PM ^
Hoping for the best, assuming the worst...
...I noticed Jameson Williams (who suffered a very serious non-contact injury during the championship game) is still projected as a first rounder.
So while an injury is obviously not good and can only hurt his draft position, as long as there is a path to recovery (and that's true for the vast, vast majority of cases), I would still expect he will drafted high.
Fingers-crossed.
March 18th, 2022 at 12:29 PM ^
My thoughts exactly. It is a rough haul, but folks at his level (Jaylon Smith, Sidney Jones, Landon Dickerson etc) still go by round 2 at the latest. Hoping for the best for him.
March 18th, 2022 at 12:52 PM ^
And Smith's injury was really, really bad. Nerve damage, drop foot, an injury people don't always come back from.
March 18th, 2022 at 11:56 AM ^
Ugh. Get well my dude!! Great medical school and facilities stand ready and waiting
March 18th, 2022 at 11:57 AM ^
MOTHERFUCK!!!
March 18th, 2022 at 12:02 PM ^
Damn! That's some rotten luck. Hope he heals quick and it doesn't impact his draft status.
March 18th, 2022 at 12:35 PM ^
Praying for Ojabo. Terrible!
Are you really praying or is that something that people just say?
Anyways, get well soon David.
I'm with you that, out of curiosity, I would like some insight from a theist whether saying you'll pray for someone is literal or more of a "hope you'll get better" or "good luck" sort of sentiment. That said, I think it's a nice thing to say either way.
Interesting question that has me curious as well. Using me as a sample of one, the answer is that I don't use the phrase very often, but when I do, it's followed by a quick prayer.
March 18th, 2022 at 10:22 PM ^
Born and raised Catholic here. Not really Catholic anymore for many many reasons. I think hoping someone gets better and praying for someone to get better are really very similar. Religious people who believe in a god or gods pray to send thoughts to a higher power in hopes things will turn out for the good. I am sure some people even believe that they may get some kind of divine intervention. Hoping someone gets better is basically the same thing. You are sending thoughts out into the "ether" hoping that fate or whatever will turn out good...
In this case people praying or wishing/hoping for the best are acknowledging that they themselves have about zero chance of actually making any difference positive or negative in how the injury turns out. Both acknowledge a lack of control and are sending out positive vibes in their own individual way and using their own belief system.
I think both probably work about the same. How well they work is up for you to decide.
One guys opinion....
March 18th, 2022 at 12:43 PM ^
Well crap!
Unless it's something very unusual, I suspect he will still go high. Too much upside to pass on this dude.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Well this doesn't look good.
That would be a better case scenario than most. Probably a high ankle sprain.
I'd have to agree with McLeft. An ACL injury, which (extremely weird things excepted) would be the biggest concern, involves destabilization of the knee joint. If the wrap/brace does not include the knee, unlikely to be ACL. There wouldn't be much point in a walking boot with an ACL injury as it does nothing to stabilize the knee joint. Much more likely to be ankle, which is at least a quicker heal.
No doubt, a high ankle sprain would be better than a knee injury. I don't know as much about an achilles injury and if a boot would support it. I do know that those injuries are pretty bad also.
Praying it is minor injury, and for a quick recovery!
Describing him in a walking boot with a wrap going up the calf (thought notably journalists actually tend to have a pretty poor sense for providing journalism-to-clinically useful details, and are often mis-focused in their reporting--case in point they didn't note if he was bearing weight on the walking boot--some Tx calls for boot+weight, some Tx calls for boot-no-weight--let alone the presence of crutches, either using or hold--as some athletes can be quite stubborn lol), so I would guess, from a very limited/amateur report, that it his knee was A-OK, but it could be an ankle, or it could be a lisfranc (either bone or ligament but the prognoses differ) type thing a la Amara Darboh (who I believe Lisfranc'd *both* of his feet 1X each, if not, then same-side 2X, his R.S. season 1st, then in August as a R.S. Fr.).
Who knows, if it's a high ankle it shouldn't affect his draft position, but if it's a bone fracture, he might drop 1 or 2 Rds as luckily he already ran at the combine. If it's an achilles, then, well, let's hope it's not the case.
Damn, what bad news for Ojabo! Let's hope it's nothing major and that the crutches and boot are precautionary until his injury is properly diagnosed.
Nooooooojabo!
Healing vibes, my dude.
Damn, Ojobbed
Gave me a gut-punch when I saw this today.