Originally posted by m_brockalexander:
How many injuries is too many with what this team just went through last year and for the last two decades?
The biggest concern with Dickerson is durability. His redshirt junior season (2019) is the only year where he's been able to finish a season healthy from start to finish. He's sustained a laundry list of injuries: torn right ACL (Nov. 2016), ankle surgery (Oct. 2017), ankle injury (2018), ligament damage to left knee (Dec. 2020).
Look at his scouting reports, too.
Although a below-average athlete, he wins with acceleration out of his stance by latching on quickly and not allowing matchups to detach. At his best when asked to stay within a controlled environment that hardly ever exceeds the B gaps, he's constantly looking for work on either side.
Doesn't sound like a good fit for own zone blocking scheme.
Much rather take someone else.
He was injured far more often than he was healthy. This dude had ONE healthy season in college and a litany of severe injury issues. Multiple ACL tears, multiple serious ankle injuries.
Honestly I don't care one bit how awesome he is on the rare and blessed occasions he actually makes it out on to the field. I don't care how fast he recovers from one injury because it's just in time for him to get injured yet again. With all the injury issues this team has been through, people really want to tempt fate that this guy will finally be the guy with a history of constantly being injured over and over and over again to finally buck the trend?
Anyone can get injured playing football but guys with long injury histories tend to continue to get injured.
