Injury rumor to starting CB?

Submitted by Wolverine91 on July 19th, 2019 at 10:18 PM

[EDIT-Seth: Bumping a comment from "GoBlueScrewOSU" below because Harbaugh addressed this at media days:

Harbaugh spoke to it directly today and just said [Ambry] Thomas is "working through something."  But I had heard prior from multiple sources that one of the DBs had a pretty serious sickness that may cause him to miss some time and that has caused some rather serious weight loss.  I'm reading between the lines but it sounded to me like there was a chance he still plays in week one but that it might take some time for him to get back to 100%.  I haven't seen chatter of it being a season ending thing yet.

I'm not an insider but I've had mono and I don't think this is mono. The description above seems to be some kind of stomach issue. There is no more information about whether he'll be back for fall camp, or 100% at some point this year--if it's a stomach thing more likely than not Ambry and his doctors don't know either, so anyone telling you how bad or how long is just making stuff up. The one thing I do know is Daxton Hill isn't playing cornerback. He's been playing free safety (Kinnel's spot) and nickel safety (with Brad Hawkins). I'm guessing someone saw him practicing nickel drills and assumed it was cornerback.]

Yes I know it's a rumor but it's been gaining traction the last few days in the twitter world.

Apparently, one of our starting corners is out with an illness and may miss the season. I know this is a stupid thread to start and I don't normally post topics but I thought someone here could give us some feedback as to if it's even true or not since I haven't seen anything on here... umbig11?? 

denardogasm

July 20th, 2019 at 12:22 AM ^

6 months?? Did you mean 6 weeks?  Never heard of anyone being held out that long.  4-6 weeks or until spleen returns to normal which is usually around that time.  I'd be more worried about something much more serious than mono if it's truly an illness holding a guy out for the season.

DJMich23

July 19th, 2019 at 10:32 PM ^

I've heard about the illness but was under the impression that he would be available by fall camp. Color me skeptical about him missing the entire season and I'm as pessimistic as they come. 

gobluescrewosu

July 19th, 2019 at 10:42 PM ^

Harbaugh spoke to it directly today and just said Thomas is "working through something."  But I had heard prior from multiple sources that one of the DBs had a pretty serious sickness that may cause him to miss some time and that has caused some rather serious weight loss.  I'm reading between the lines but it sounded to me like there was a chance he still plays in week one but that it might take some time for him to get back to 100%.  I haven't seen chatter of it being a season ending thing yet.

Jasper

July 19th, 2019 at 10:42 PM ^

OP: Maybe look around a bit first and then tighten up the post's title. (Having "starting cornerback" is a bit click-baity.) This has been available for several hours:

https://247sports.com/college/michigan/Article/michigan-wolverines-football-ambry-thomas-jim-harbaugh-health-update-133768441/

Aside, Harbaugh qualified his remarks here, but I wish he hadn't said ... what he said:

https://247sports.com/college/michigan/Article/Michigan-footballs-Jim-Harbaugh-implies-that-transfer-James-Hudson-forged-depression-for-eligibility-133789719/

See how the Michigan 24/7 site ran with that? Imagine what other outlets might do.

SMart WolveFan

July 19th, 2019 at 11:39 PM ^

I feel:

Let them create fauxrage:

Last year, at this exact event, the fall of Urban Decay began because he thought winning was more important than misogyny ...meh, he a winner!

This year, Harbaugh wants to take the pressure off student-athletes so they are never in the position to feel the need to lie about something as important as mental heath just to not miss out on their NFL dream .....0-4,0-4,0-4,0-4,0-4,0-4,0-4 ......

LeCheezus

July 20th, 2019 at 8:12 AM ^

Zach Shaw is a "content creator" for 24/7 whose job is to write a separate article for every line in a press conference that has 3 pre-written paragraphs summarizing the end of last season so the whole turd is longer than a paragraph.  He also commonly uses terrible clickbait-y titles, probably because he gets paid by the click.  Finally, he changed the title of that article a couple hours after it was released because he took a bunch of shit from the paying customers of TMI the second it went up.

Harbaugh is going to say things sometimes that will be interpreted in the worst way possible from the recreational outrage loudmouths in society.  I interpreted his comments to basically say mental health issues are real and diagnosable, but if claiming mental health issues is an automatic way to get immediate eligibility it can (and probably will) be abused. 

We all know the Justin Fields immediate eligibility was a huge pile of BS but nobody wanted to touch that one with a 10 ft pole, and we all know why. 

NeverPunt

July 19th, 2019 at 10:54 PM ^

Ohhhh boy injury rumors. a CB who may or may not be starting and may or may not be Ambry may or may not be out for a few weeks or maybe the season for what may or may not be an illness which may or may not cause Dax Hill to play CB this fall, that is, unless he doesn’t. Hang on to your butts, people, it’s getting to be football season again!

Qmatic

July 19th, 2019 at 10:59 PM ^

The discussion here reminds me of back in the day when I played high school football and our coaches were giant assholes to players who seemed to get “hurt” all the time. We as players called these guys “Jersey wearers.” 

Our coaches would blatantly say to these players “you get another hairline fracture of your mangina?” Or “let me guess you have acute vaginitis”