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After an injury scare in Wednesday's practice, Seattle Seahawks rookie safety Nick Emmanwori said he woke up this morning “not feeling sore”.
Head coach Mike Macdonald also said earlier today that he “fully expects” that Emmanwori will play in Super Bowl LX. Still, as a precaution, Emmanwori was a non-participant in Thursday's practice.
Emmanwori injured the same ankle in Week 1 vs. the San Francisco 49ers, after which the team held him out for three weeks out of an abundance of caution. However, that was a high ankle sprain, while this one’s a low ankle sprain. The high ankle sprain typically requires a recovery period of “six weeks to several months” but he came back in three weeks. The low ankle sprain typically requires a recovery timetable of “a few weeks”. However, those timelines are for the average person- and if there’s one thing we’ve learned about Emmanwori this season, it’s that he’s far from the average person.
With an entire offseason looming and the game of any player’s dreams on Sunday, if there were any time to throw caution to the wind as much as possible, the Super Bowl would be it. This language from Macdonald and Emmanwori definitely suggests the injury isn’t severe. However, the question might not be, “Will Nick Emmanwori play on Sunday?” but instead, “Will Nick Emmanwori’s play be affected on Sunday?”
The unknown severity of this injury will remain a big question mark leading up to- and possibly through- Sunday’s game. Low ankle sprains affect lateral movement, a huge key to Emmanwori’s role as a nickel safety, also known as the “joker” position. The Patriots will hear this and force him to test that ability- which isn’t gamesmanship, it’s just game planning. They’re well equipped to do so with Drake Maye’s rocket arm.
Even if Emmanwori plays, he might be hindered in one of his strongest areas. Luckily, he’s got tons of other athletic tools. But if there’s one thing we know about him after all of this, it’s that using any other player- or human, for that matter- as a comparison for his injury would be a disservice to his uniqueness. He’s already built like a super soldier- if he regenerates quicker, too, we might just have to start calling him such.
This article originally appeared on Seahawks Wire: Seahawks' Nick Emmanwori injury: Will it affect his Super Bowl play?
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Head coach Mike Macdonald also said earlier today that he “fully expects” that Emmanwori will play in Super Bowl LX. Still, as a precaution, Emmanwori was a non-participant in Thursday's practice.
Emmanwori injured the same ankle in Week 1 vs. the San Francisco 49ers, after which the team held him out for three weeks out of an abundance of caution. However, that was a high ankle sprain, while this one’s a low ankle sprain. The high ankle sprain typically requires a recovery period of “six weeks to several months” but he came back in three weeks. The low ankle sprain typically requires a recovery timetable of “a few weeks”. However, those timelines are for the average person- and if there’s one thing we’ve learned about Emmanwori this season, it’s that he’s far from the average person.
With an entire offseason looming and the game of any player’s dreams on Sunday, if there were any time to throw caution to the wind as much as possible, the Super Bowl would be it. This language from Macdonald and Emmanwori definitely suggests the injury isn’t severe. However, the question might not be, “Will Nick Emmanwori play on Sunday?” but instead, “Will Nick Emmanwori’s play be affected on Sunday?”
The unknown severity of this injury will remain a big question mark leading up to- and possibly through- Sunday’s game. Low ankle sprains affect lateral movement, a huge key to Emmanwori’s role as a nickel safety, also known as the “joker” position. The Patriots will hear this and force him to test that ability- which isn’t gamesmanship, it’s just game planning. They’re well equipped to do so with Drake Maye’s rocket arm.
Even if Emmanwori plays, he might be hindered in one of his strongest areas. Luckily, he’s got tons of other athletic tools. But if there’s one thing we know about him after all of this, it’s that using any other player- or human, for that matter- as a comparison for his injury would be a disservice to his uniqueness. He’s already built like a super soldier- if he regenerates quicker, too, we might just have to start calling him such.
This article originally appeared on Seahawks Wire: Seahawks' Nick Emmanwori injury: Will it affect his Super Bowl play?
Continue reading...
