I think the sprain story came out before the broken leg story. It may have been a premature report . . . or disinformation. You can bet that Les ain't going to clear it up for anybody.
It's a trade-off. When Nick was here we ran an awful lot of "thump" drills in practice with no hard tackling because Nick thought that it reduced practice injuries and allowed him to run more plays in practice. It did seem to reduce practice injuries, but the team seemed to always take a couple of games to get untracked and start hitting hard. Les played many more full-contact drills and we took more practice injuries, but it seemed to eliminate the soft starts, especially among the linemen.
I saw the broken fibula first in a tweet from Michael Bonnette. I later saw the sprained ankle story in an Advocate article quoting his Mom. I would think the actual injury would come from his Mom, if it doesn't come from LSU.
I was wrong in my post. It was reported as a fractured fibula versus broken. How do they tell the actual injury? MRI?
Fractured = broken, just a fancier word. XR is all that is needed for most bony injuries/fractures. MRI more helpful for soft tissue injuries like sprains, which is a simple word for a ligament injury/tear.
Generally I think fractured is used to describe a crack or break that isn't displaced. With a fibula damage to ligaments is a concern if it is displaced.
Hate it for a guy who comes back for his senior year, especially on a team always loaded with juniors that could make the jump the to the pros.
