Kevin Smith Needs Shoulder Surgery
by Sean Yuille on Jan 8, 2010 8:41 PM EST
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PrintKevin Smith is fresh off of knee surgery, but he's about to go back under the knife for a completely different reason.
Running back Kevin Smith, who recently had surgery to repair a torn knee ligament, also will undergo left shoulder surgery. Mayhew said Smith played with two injured shoulders throughout the season but only one would require surgery.
I have no idea how severe Smith's shoulder injury is, but the fact that he played through injuries to both shoulders says quite a bit about his toughness. For a running back, it can't be easy taking hits on nearly every play when both shoulders are injured, especially when one is injured enough to require surgery.
Hopefully Smith can get this issue taken care of and continue to rehab his knee. Considering he looked to be playing better as the season went on despite being injured, I look forward to seeing a healthy Kevin Smith on the football field again. Hopefully there will be no further setbacks and that return to the field will be sometime later this year.
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Smith is definitely a tough guy
I’ll be really disappointed if he never recovers from the knee injury.
+1
2009 = The start of the Lions Golden Age (We hope).
Zack Follett: he will hurt your mind.
by Hyperion Ecta on Jan 8, 2010 9:01 PM EST up reply actions
Luckily based on the surgery and his blog post
it sounds like everything is going okay. Welker’s injury sounds way worse than Smith’s even though it’s WR vs RB.
PIZZA?!?
Oh Crap!
I remember a really promising rookie who had an injury, and then another injury, and then he passed out drunk in a Mexican restaurant, having sat out the last three years, partially due to injuries, and partially due to being a complete dumbass-anyone else concerned that history is repeating itself?
Have you forgotten
His playoff predictions for the 09 season?
by topherclosson on Jan 9, 2010 1:34 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
I didn't mean...
that Smith had done anything dumb- just Rogers. But the injuries do have me worried that history is repeating itself as far as promising rookies whose injuries seem to extinguish any success they might have had…
promising rookie
i wouldn’t go as far as saying he was a promising rookie. he was drafted in the 3rd rd(64th) pick and we got that from the dolphins. i would say he made himself a starter. remember, we had a running back named kevin jones (30th pick in 04) theat came to a really bad team and did very well (1000+ yd season) then got injured and swept under the carpet after he went to the bears. the difference between the two….the 2010 and 2011 lions i think have the potential to be playoff competitors. maybe not get to the playoffs, but compete. here’s the thing….we need to give him a chance when training camp comes.
This news should not be surprising.
After the Washington game, his running production fell off and there were numerous questions on this blog about Kevin playing hurt.
I give him a lot of credit for continuing to play as hard as he could, but I am disappointed in the Lions staff that they did not utilize Morris or Felton more to take some of the load off of Kevin.
That was exactly why they got Morris, and he demonstrated later in the year that he could still be a capable back.
I agree- Morris showed promise...
but you’re right. It seemed like Detroit was hell-bent on running Smith into the ground before exercizing other options, which is silly when you consider how many two-back tandems there are in the league.
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