According to a 2021 study published by The Orthopaedic Journal at Harvard Medical School, of the 25 NFL players whose turf toe injuries required surgery between 2000 and 2017, none returned to play the same season. Five never returned at all and had to retire.
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How many were QBs?
Cincy sports are cursed.
And Mahomes had turf toe and surgery as well…and then won a couple super bowls.
This was after this study came out.
Jesus Christ it’s turf toe on a QB. Honestly it’s ridiculous if you can’t come back from that.
Yea, that damn toe really makes it hard to throw the ball…
/s I know it’s mobility related, but let’s not act like Joe is playing the way Lamar or Josh do..
well thanks for that pull up ace!
When during the season did these injuries take place? What position did these players play? What procedure did they receive?
I’d rely zero on this
Zero doubt he’ll be back next season. No way JB hangs it up considering how competitive he is.
He’s done for the season. Anyone who doesn’t believe this is in denial
As a turf toe survivor. I had a grade 2. Took me months to recover. Granted I didn’t have the rehab at the disposal. The only thing that sucks is the pain never truly goes away. One wrong plant and you can aggravate it. Hell I aggravated my toe a year after injury getting out of bed.
He’s going to be dealing with this the rest of his career. Now the pain won’t be severe where he can’t play, and the pain shouldn’t be affect performance after it’s heals. it will just be annoying and nagging.
Look at all the other teams with franchise QBs like KC, BAL, PHI, BUF, then there’s us completely wasting ours.
It’s Joever
He will play out his contract for certain…. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Man I can’t wait for Sunday… 🙄
Everyone was a doomer after the wrist injury (no qb has had that injury! It’s his throwing hand!) and he was fine.
Modern surgery + modern rehab + Joe’s mindset… no need to panic.
They said the same shit about his wrist injury
How about the study from between 2018 and 2025? Lol i want a 2nd opinion
What does this mean for my Fantasy Team set up of Burrow/Chase?
Hopefully there’s been some medical advancements since 2017.
Missing so much context here. A lot of players who retire off a minor injury were already pretty close to hanging it up.
Timing matters a lot as well. If the Super Bowl is next week, Burrow is getting shot up with whatever they used on Mahomes and he’s playing through it. Not worth risking further injury with so much of the season left to go.
Can we talk about a bigger issue here? Why the fuck are NFL stadiums using turf? There is clear research that shows turf causes more injuries than grass, and the only benefit to turf is that it is cheaper to maintain. Can these billion dollar organizations maybe just cut a lousy million dollars they make every year in profit and spend it on grass so we can avoid injuries like this?
Pretty sure you could replace Joe’s leg with a wooden peg and he’d still suit up.
Yeah, and Burrow is the only QB to have the wrist injury he did, and there was a lot of concern along with a lot of people thinking he was done for good. The wrist is fine now. He’ll be fine. If Mahomes can recover, so can Burrow. If we can win with JB6 until Burrow is healthy, we will see number 9 again.
Ended Jahvid Best’s career along with some concussions I believe. Guy was so fast.
Well, that is not news i would be spreading around. Can you guys just leave Burrow alone and see what befalls the Bengals as the weeks go by. Surely, you have more in your life than fretting over Joe’s toe. Let him get his own shit back in order, eh?
Yeah but also how many of those happened in week 1 or 2 for a player to even have a possibility?
Also, for what its worth, all 4 qbs that had this surgery were able to “return to their prior level of performance”.