Mo Hurst diagnosed with a heart condition at the NFL combine
Let's hope this is nothing serious.
According to USA Today, Mo is scheduled to talk to reporters at 3pm today (Saturday)
Woah, that’s terrible.
Hopefully this isn’t serious. He can be 100 cleared and these dirtbag NFL teams are still going to hold it against him.
Dirtbag NFL teams?
Be minor and treatable
Fuck
Terrible news for the young man, but his health is most important.
This kid has worked so hard for what he has gotten, it would be an absolute travesty if he has it taken away this close to his goal. Good luck Mo!
Especially for a young man that has done everything the right way
This would be heartbreaking if it's serious. I hope for all the best.
Phrasing
Is it unusual that the tests at the NFL combine would catch something that the college medical staffs at a place like UM wouldn’t?
Unfortunately, I don't think college athletes undergo the types of physicals that would catch such things. A basketball player from Baylor was diagnosed with a problem a few years ago by the NBA and he was going to be a lottery pick.
http://www.espn.com/nba/draft2014/story/_/id/11119553/former-baylor-sta…
It is not standard practice for NCAA teams to perform EKGs on athletes. The NFL performs EKGs on every athlete at the combine. My father is a Cardiologist who previously read the EKGs for the athletes at the combine. He occasionally would discover something that would not be detected per standard team physical examinations. When an abnormality is detected, they undergo further testing (i.e. Cardiac ultrasound, or others depending upon findings) to detect any potential structural abnormality. This is usually not favorable, but sometimes it may be something incidental and not affecting ability to play safely. Let's all hope for the best. Mo deserves NFL success and a large salary. We know him, though. He is a hard-worker, and he will succeed regardless of this outcome.
Also, your question sort of implies that he had the condition during college.
But it was undiagnosed; not due to negligence but due to not performing extensive testing on every athlete.
Is it likely that he developed the condition in the last two months?
Doubtful
Unless it is something like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which develops slowly over many years and often comes with no symptoms until the victim drops dead. If that is indeed what he has he is lucky it was caught.
Is that he's managed to play at a really high level for 4 years.
The risk here is that heart stuff can be tricky and obviously serious. I hope for Mo's sake that this ends up being nothing serious and that he is able to pursue his dream.
that's awful to hear. I hope the best for him. He deserves everything he has coming his way, aside from the health issues of course. Hopefully it is just a small murmur that doesn't hold him back at all. Nothing more unfair than being a few weeks away from fulfilling your dream and finding out something like this.
Sigh. That’s too bad. Hope it’s something minor
I really hope this isn't serious. It sucks that Mo worked his ass off to get to this point and now his career might be over before it begins.
How awful
Not unusual. I've had NFL people tell me that the medical portion of the combine is all any team really cares about.
I hope it's not serious, and I'd feel terrible if this derailed his career, but better to know this now. I think we all know the Quentin Groves story, though he was able to play several years in the NFL.
It's important, but it's not all that NFL teams pay attention to. They love their metrics and comparisons, and even the Wonderlic testing.
Teams have their preferences, but my understanding is that there's actually a trend away from too much reliance on analytics. Everyone noticed the Raiders' dead decade when they went all-out on the combine stuff.
I heard (and this was second-hand) that there was at least one team, maybe several, that indicated they wouldn't even be there if it weren't for the medical. Even the interviews are so coached these days that teams stopped caring.
But the medical is their one opportunity to poke and prod before they've acquired a player. It's more thorough than anything most of us will ever experience in a lifetime.
Terrible news. Let’s hope it’s not serious. Would this be covered under the insurance policies we see seniors take out recently, or does that have to be from an on-field injury?
Hang in there Mo!
Oh, wow. There's something no one expected to hear.
Hopefully, it isn't serious and doesn't derail any chance he has to play on Sundays,
Potentially awful; but the good news is finding something this way, vs not finding it.
Good luck to him...hoping it's not serious and glad they look for this stuff. Could save a guy's life.
Hopefully it is something that can be fixed. But if not its good that they found out before he died on the field .
Having a Michigan education , I am confident, if he should not be able to play in the NFL . He will; be just fine in life .
that's terrible. I hate that Mo has to deal with this at what should be the most exciting and happy time in his life. I suppose that it's better to find the issue then have it be there and not know about it, I hope it's nothing serious. Mo Hurst has worked hard and stayed out of trouble, I feel like he deserves every bit of the success that is going to come to him.
Hard to think positively, but better to know than not to know, and it's his hard work & dedication that put him in the position of finding out now, when whatever it is can be taken care of. We're all pulling for you, Mo!
Man, this hits you right in the feels. Such a good dude, by all accounts. Hopefully it's something minor and he can be cleared to play. Good luck big fella.
Well, that's fucking depressing. Hope you get better, big fella
Hopefully he's okay. At least they caught it early.
Surprised it wasn't flagged earlier. I assume the team does a decent job checking out the health of their athletes.
This sucks for potentially derailing his NFL career.
But there is the very real possibility that, without football, Mo would have never found out about this. And he might have dropped dead at a young age as a result.
Whever his football future is, football has already potentially saved his life.
Hope they can make room for him on the UM coaching staff if he can’t play anymore. Get him into grad school and an assistant job ASAP so he is busy and doesn’t spiral in to depression as many might if a lifelong dream is taken away ina heartbeat (no pun intended)
minor and treatable or require no treatment at all.
Let’s hope and pray.
Acquire that don’t restrict you from contact sports. I pray that he has one of the few!!! I’m aware of one very well but anyways I hope his spirits stay up!!
At least he’s alive. Either way he will be fine. God didn’t bring him this far, for nothing.
It’s good that this was discovered at a young age hopefully it isn’t too serious. Although I wonder why this wasn’t found before? Do college and high school players not get heart checks?
You would have to assume that his condition isn't very serious bc The University Of Michigan has one of the best medical staffs in all the land. If it were serious I am sure our med staff would have caught it.
So I am holding out hope that this "condition" is something fixable or something not likely to affect his ability to play at a high level.
Hang in there Mo!!!!
Aww man, hope he is well and it’s treatable. This puts things in perspective. I’m sitting here worrying about this basketball game against State, and Mo is worrying about a heart condition and his career. Some things are more important than a game. Get well soon Mo.
Keep your head up, Mo! You're one of our favorites ever.
He'll be in my prayers.
Good looking out new sparty guy.