Mark Ingram Has Surgery, Will Miss SJSU Game
by Year2 on Aug 31, 2010 2:06 PM EDT
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PrintReigning Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram had arthroscopic surgery on his knee today, putting him on the bench for Saturday's opener against San Jose State. Obviously, that makes no difference. Alabama is still going to stomp the Spartans.
But what about the future? Arthroscopic surgery is a term than can encompass many difference procedures. As you might imagine, the Alabama Ministry of Information didn't provide too many details on what specific procedure Ingram underwent this morning. However, Nick Saban labeled it as a minor surgery in response to an injury from Monday's practice, and said Ingram should make a "full recovery" in "a relatively short time frame."
For mere mortals, minor arthroscopic surgery would put a person on the sidelines for a few weeks. According to Saban, Ingram is out this week and on "a week to week basis" after that. Athletes in peak physical condition often recover faster than you or I do, so that's probably a reasonable time frame.
If Alabama is hoping to get any clues about the defense that second week opponent Penn State is sporting this year, it won't get many. The Nittany Lions open with Youngstown State. Missing one week won't significantly hurt Ingram's chances at repeating as Heisman winner, but missing more than that does. I guess if Ingram doesn't recover in a week and half, we'll all find out pretty quickly just how good the sophomore edition of Trent Richardson really is.
UPDATE
Roll Bama Roll managed to get a quote from sports injury expert Will Carroll. Go there for the full information, but Carroll estimates a 2-4 week recovery time table, though keep in mind that Carroll knows as much about what exactly happened in Ingram's knee as we do. Which is to say, nothing.
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Saban would be arrested
if he rushes Ingram back too fast. Or at least, he’d never sign another high profile RB, which is probably worse. Bama’s got a pretty good backup, I’m guessing we don’t see Ingram for about 4 weeks.
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I could see him getting some snaps @ Duke
just to get him back playing again before he has to have a bigger role vs. Arkansas… I do think Penn State would be too early.
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by billycthulhu on Aug 31, 2010 3:41 PM EDT up reply actions
we spoke to carroll
about what type of injury we would be talking about given the details we do know of the operation not the other way around.
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Right
I was just trying to emphasized my frustration that no more information has come out of the school on this, but it probably falls under Ingram’s right to privacy.
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that and saban's bellichick-esque control over injury news
but, still, they offered a surprising amount on this one damned fast. there wasn’t even really a rumor about it before the school’s announcement was posted.
the main thrust of our question for carroll was whether the procedure described was exploratory or actually to fix something. the arthroscopic procedure could have been just to look around inside the knee on the possibility of something was awry that the mri couldn’t determine. carroll seemed to think there was something further done given the procedure and the doctors involved but not enough to lengthen the recover.
the good news is that we can be assured there isn’t a lurking tear in there that is just one mis-plant and cut away from ending his season. keep in mind, this is most likely what actually happened on monday since saban doesn’t allow full contact in regular practices.
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