Hoke: Peppers has ankle injury, will play next week

Submitted by bballislife22 on

Via every single person on Twitter. I'm sure this has been posted in the Jabrill updates thread 5 or 6 threads down, but no need to have to skip past 60+ replies to find it.

This news is the ribbon on top of as close to a perfect first game as we could hope for. Great performances all around, and major injury free.

sdogg1m

August 30th, 2014 at 4:11 PM ^

Interesting. I would like to know how he injured his ankle because on the only play that appeared to injury him, he was blocked at the knee.

Rhino77

August 30th, 2014 at 4:11 PM ^

And here I was being all depressed and getting all sloppy drunk worrying about Jabril. Well, now I shall get all sloppy drunk and celebrate the good news.

Shakey Jake

August 30th, 2014 at 4:14 PM ^

Maybe MGOBLOG should donate those snowflakes to keep the swelling down. The kid is a baller. I hope he recovers quickly and if not, give him all the steroids and HGH they can to get him 100% so he can knock the snot out of Notre Lame next week.

nowayman

August 30th, 2014 at 4:18 PM ^

I'm not sure whether my anger is reasonable or not, though.  Cut blocks are fine, but Peppers was looking the other way and the play was already dying if not dead.  

Edit: falling awkwardly is what does it for ankles.  

And you should trust me, because I play a doctor in this one post on mgoblog.  

reshp1

August 30th, 2014 at 6:42 PM ^

It was a run of the mill cut block and the play was headed that way if it wasn't for our good DL/LB play. The receiver has his back to the play so he can't see what's going on, it's his assignment to cut Peppers. Peppers needs to be more alert and protect himself in that situation, this won't be the last time someone tries to cut block him.

LKLIII

August 30th, 2014 at 5:45 PM ^

Although ankles injuries do manifest their true severity after another day or two, the fact is it can't be that severe. With a massive ankle sprain, a person isn't able to even walk or put pressure on it at all pretty much instantaneously.  He would've needed help off the field and wouldn't have been trying to run out there for another punt return.

So unless something happened more severe off-screen later on, my bet is this is a relatively minor "boo boo" in Hokespeak, and he'll be on the field for ND, just as Hoke said in the presser.

MichiganTeacher

August 30th, 2014 at 10:19 PM ^

I've injured my ankle twice and been able to keep playing on it, only to have it swell up and bruise seriously enough to go to the doctor later, in one case a day later, in another case three days later.

That said, I think Peppers is probably going to be ready to go next week. Hoke seems pretty confident and many ankle injuries heal quickly IME.

Gucci Mane

August 30th, 2014 at 7:02 PM ^

I'm glad it's not a big issue, but I'm still concerned because even minor ankle sprains can be tricky to manage. I hope it doesn't hurt him at all next week.

sj

August 30th, 2014 at 7:40 PM ^

I'm confused. Hoke's disinterest in accuracy when describing injuries is well-established. I'm not saying Peppers isn't fine, I'm just confused why we think Hoke saying he's fine means he's fine. 

NamedMyDogWoodson

August 30th, 2014 at 9:42 PM ^

Although Hoke said ankle injury, I've been told by a locker room usher (mi amigo) it was cramping in one of his legs. I suppose it doesn't really matter as he'll be playing next week, but I would take cramping over ankle injury.



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