Brock Bowers - Olu Fashanu Discussion

According to Dick Chimney, it's not Achilles, which was the worst fear. Foot injury though, not sure of severity.

 

Brock Bowers crossed the 1000 yard mark today with 2 games to spare, averaging 10.6 yards per.

 

Who gives a fuck now about this bald motherfucker?

 

Finally saw some of him play yesterday.... granted just the 1st half of the game, but damn, the kid looks good.

 

Another good game from Olu - All 22 of every play. Sucks he got hurt, but hopefully will not impact off-season workouts and he can take another leap next year. Went again probable rookie of the year too in Verse and did well, only losing perhaps a couple of reps all game.

 

Per source (gulp), the injury is not serious thought he will miss the remaining two weeks. If true, really good news.

 

Plantar facia injury for Olu. No surgery needed. Usually for something like this 6-12 weeks recovery. Should be ready to go for the offseason program.

 

Moose said he needs surgery and is on IR.

I thought I knew what plantar fasciitis was, but again the jets prove me wrong

 

Who is Moose? He is probably reporting what Brick said originally, but that was later clarified by the Jets. There are multiple reports that "Ulbrich said he believed Fashanu would need surgery, but the team later clarified that a procedure won't be required."

Bottom line, 6-12 weeks, with or without surgery: https://orthopedicnj.com/news/plantar-fasciitis-surgery

In March he should be back to full activity, and partial activity well before that, which I guess is a good news given what it looked like initially. Should not impact the offseason program.

Update: Garafolo reported surgery originally too, but retracted saying needs a few weeks to recover. "No surgery needed for #Jets OT Olu Fashanu. Just a few weeks to recover. Full steam ahead for 2025." Overall, season is over, but full recovery, and no setbacks for the second season are expected, which is great.

 

I don’t think you’re out for an extended period of time without surgery for that injury. It’s also an injury that lingers. When the muscle in your foot stretches because of the way you plant it’s always going to do that because the ligament isn’t big enough to support the front to back or your foot.

I think surgery is a permanent fix and there’s no risk for injury thereafter? It’s not necessarily a fix for the injury, it’s a fix for the problem.

I’m not a doctor but that’s always what I interpreted with that problem.

 

Yeah it makes no sense.

I'm not a doctor by any stretch, but I thought plantar fasciitis was something that is long term nagging injury than eventually leads to surgery possibly.. not something that happens on a single play. I don't remember him being on an injury report.

 

Maybe they'll downgrade his sudden injury to tendinitis.

 

Definitely there is no way it is just plantar fasciitis. I am quite certain he had a full tear - the guy could not put any weight on it. This case I think may be very similar: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10239071/ .

"We report a case of plantar fascia rupture in a 22-year-old male semi-professional football player who presented with sudden severe pain in the sole of his right foot during a match, followed by a popping sensation and inability to weight bear. The athlete was healthy and had no history of previous injury in the right foot. MRI confirmed a complete rupture of the plantar fascia. The player was treated conservatively and underwent a rehabilitation program. The player returned to full competition after nine weeks, with no limitations.... Conservative treatment, including rest, immobilization, and physical therapy, may be effective in most cases, while surgical intervention may be required in those that are nonresponsive to conservative treatment...."

This seems to jive well with some of the other sources I see where they mention 6-12 weeks for the tear and typically no surgery required. You are right though, if he does not get better, probably will end up with the surgery Jan/Feb, but hopefully this will be a typical case where it heals without it and back by March.

 

All I know is the team is completely lost, and even reporting an injury seems to be really hard. The way they are describing the injury seems to be poor. The jets struggle at literally everything. I've worked at places like that.

They are, again, easily a bottom 5 franchise in sports