Players taking medicals? [Ed-S: ..or non-renew 5ths, or transfers]

Submitted by Streetchemist on
[Ed-S: Hoke said this:
 

"There's only 12 seniors in this class, we'll have some guys who are medical (redshirts) and that kind of thing, which gets us up to about 15, but this is a small class. Seventy-eight of our players are freshmen or sophomores, that's a lot of young guys."

 
And then Mark Snyder tweeted that into "3 medical redshirts coming!" And the OP posted that. The tweet has been taken down apparently for being misleading. If you want to read tea leaves they were talking about a class of 15 before. Carry on.]
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Lucky Socks

October 23rd, 2014 at 11:16 AM ^

I'm curious who your obvious possibilities are.  I don't want to break the rule of speculating about injuries, but I will try to rule people out (delete if I cross a line...I certainly wish the best for all of our guys.)

K. Hill - ACLs aren't career ending.  Morgan -  I suppose, if it's bad enough.  But it seems to be upper limb, and he's eligible for a medical redshirt to return.  Pipkins - Has been absent lately, this would be a shame.  D. Hill - Feels like just yesterday he was our pre-season starter with some buzz.  I hope not.  Drake Harris - Feels a bit early to call it a career...I REALLY hope not. 

Those are the major injuries affecting guys I know about.  These three players could include depth guys or walk-ons.  Again, I don't wish a career ending injury on anybody...but that seems most likely based on what I do know about contributors who we know are injured.  

Get your education fellas, there's life after football for 100% of you.  You just know it a bit earlier. 

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Mr Miggle

October 23rd, 2014 at 11:49 AM ^

Yesterday Hoke said he was doing more at practice.

My guess is that two of the players aren't on the depth chart. We haven't heard about their injuries yet. I think there's only one obvious candidate among the group whose injuries are more or less known.

 

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Streetchemist

October 23rd, 2014 at 11:20 AM ^

I think one is PeeWee.  Peppers is a possiblity.  His injury is supposedly a chipped bone in his knee.  Doesn't sound career ending.  Green only had the collarbone and unless theres a whole lot more there, I can't believe it would be career ending.  Hill has the knee but I would think a career ending diagnosis would be made after recovery.  Has he even had surgery yet?

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Bluemandew

October 23rd, 2014 at 11:30 AM ^

It's not patty cakes they are playing. Everyone that plays football knows you can get serously hurt at any given time. This is why the pros almost never hit in training camp or practice anymore. I don't think it is fair to blame the coaches for injuiries. But at this point one of our players could catch ebola and it would somehow be Brandon and Hokes fault .

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pearlw

October 23rd, 2014 at 11:25 AM ^

Im not sure if that is exactly what Hoke meant. He may have meant either:
1) Just making a general statement that class is always bigger than the number of scholarships because of attrition and medical redshirts. Everyone here makes the exact same statement when they talk about possible class size.
2) Or may have also been counting guys who are on campus now but are already on medical redshirt status such as Chris Bryant as that is additional scholarship that some would see if they based on the guys still on campus.


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