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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heyjoe4" data-source="post: 964066" data-attributes="member: 13032">Good point.  The ACL repair should be completely healed.  In October, I think, he had the knee scoped to clean up a tear in his meniscus.  I think he said he has about 85% of the meniscus left (that's hard to quantify).  But they trimmed the torn meniscus.  The meniscus is the main source of cushioning in the knee.  For most people, losing 15% of that would be no big deal.  When you weigh 300 pounds you're putting a LOT of stress on the knee, on every play.  So maybe he just can't go.  The stress on the knee not absorbed by the meniscus is probably causing some pain - but worse, it's probably causing swelling.  And swelling tightens up the whole knee.Hey I'm not a doctor and am speculating.  But something isn't right and this is based on all we've been told.  Let's wait and see where he is when TC starts Wed.  He should be a full participant.  Anything less is a big problem.  On the bright side, if the doctors thought his career was over, they would have said so (I think).</blockquote>

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