Stefon Diggs likely out for the rest of the season due to lacerated kidney.
Sources: Stefon Diggs suffered a lacerated kidney vs. Penn State and appears likely to be out through at least the end of the regular season
— Matt Zenitz (@mzenitz) November 10, 2014
It sounds like Diggs will be out for the rest of the season. Hopefully he gets well soon and this doesn't affect his promising career, or more importantly his health and wellbeing.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:36 AM ^
Jesus. A lacerated kidney? What kind of impact force has to come into play for that to happen? Best wishes to him, hopefully he makes a full recovery.
November 10th, 2014 at 12:16 PM ^
Did the guy tackling him do it with a meathook?? What kind of sports injury is that?
November 10th, 2014 at 1:13 PM ^
We had a kid on our HS football squad who lost half a season due to a lacerated spleen.
Still not sure what the geometry would have to be to make that happen, since I picture the spleen being well underneath the ribs (unlike the kidneys). I guess one of those floating ribs must have been wiggled a bit. Like Diggs, he got blown up in the midsection while he was stretched out.
Ouch . . . .
November 10th, 2014 at 2:44 PM ^
blunt force trauma. The kidney Relatively mobile organ. When a body in motion is halted by a rough tackle, the kidney keeps moving and can shear.
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November 10th, 2014 at 10:36 AM ^
Good lord. What is that? Is that a football injury?
November 10th, 2014 at 10:59 AM ^
That's what I was thinking. That is actually kind of nauseating to think about. Honestly there are some injuries that make me a little queazy just hearing about them and I tend to pass out when I he
November 10th, 2014 at 11:18 AM ^
Quick! Somebody get the Kate Upton-flavored smelling salts!
November 10th, 2014 at 10:37 AM ^
Here's a link to a Baltimore Sun article that details what happened. I hope he gets well soon.
Diggs was injured early in the fourth quarter of the Terp's victory at Penn State, when he took a shot to the kidney area while diving and stretching out for the end zone after a catch.
Diggs was down on the field for an extended period and was tended to by Maryland’s athletic trainer before walking to the sideline.
While Diggs later returned to the game and nearly scored on the Terps’ next series, the wide receiver was in noticeable pain while walking to the postgame media area after the game.
November 10th, 2014 at 1:23 PM ^
Double ugh - for the injury, and for "Terp's". Even the professional media is getting worse and worse at punctuation.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:40 AM ^
Yikes. That's scary. Hope he gets well soon.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:41 AM ^
But a quick Googling of this reveals that, thankfully, this should not be a career-ending injury for Diggs. Sometimes surgery is necessary, but these seem to be fixable issues (albeit painful and obviously serious in the near term). I hope he recovers well and am sorry to see him suffer this injury.
The bigger question, I suppose, is whether he comes back for his senior year. Either way, all the best to Diggs.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:42 AM ^
Does this mean he might transfer to Michigan? I hear we are still in on him...
In all seriousity, I can't believe he went back in to the game. Don't they have coaches who look out for those types of things?
Ok, really serious. I hope he recovers well and quickly.
November 10th, 2014 at 12:16 PM ^
Injuries that result in internal bleeding (without extreme mechanism of injury or other obvious injuries) are tough to find until the bleeding becomes extremely obvious (abdominal rigidity and intolerable pain). They are tricky to discover up until that point. Kidney lacerations that affect the color of one's urine are actually sort of a blessing in diguise becuase the problem is identified faster due to the strange/terrifying signs.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:42 AM ^
That's some scary stuff - hope he gets better soon and is able to continue is very promising career.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:43 AM ^
That is terrible. I hope he will be fine after all of the surgery he probably will need done. He is really talented.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:44 AM ^
People asking how much force is needed to lacerate a kidney?
The non-scientific answer is generally a lot.
However, in football it is not uncommon to see impacts of 20-30g's and if that 20-30g's is directed at your mid-low back it'll definitely be enough to lacerate your kidney.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:54 AM ^
Thanks for providing this answer actually - I was curious when I saw the Sun article because it seemed like it would have to be one hell of blow to the lower back / abdomen (depending on the direction of the tackle) to do this, but this at least puts a number on it.
Hopefully, Diggs' recovery goes well and he is back out there in 2015.
November 10th, 2014 at 12:28 PM ^
No problem. I don't post much but with medical stuff and certainly trauma related stuff I try and get my two cents in. And football certainly has it's fair share of trauma.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:44 AM ^
Hope he recovers.
Really setting up for us to sludgefart our way to a bowl game at this point.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:46 AM ^
Those are no joke. Get well.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:51 AM ^
Some may remember that Eric Davis suffered this injury in Game 4 of the 1990 World Series. He stayed in a hospital in Oakland while the rest of the team came back to Cincinnati.
Diggs would've torn our secondary apart. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
November 10th, 2014 at 11:48 AM ^
Chicago QB Jim McMahon had this injury in the early 1980's. He recovered and went on to win a Super Bowl.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:52 AM ^
God has turned his attention away from Iowa running backs and is now focusing on receivers who once considered Michigan but went elsewhere.
LeQuon Treadwell and Stefon Diggs should get together and go bowling.
November 10th, 2014 at 11:00 AM ^
Wasn't he the one who shoved the ref before the game?
November 10th, 2014 at 11:14 AM ^
really?
November 10th, 2014 at 11:53 AM ^
I'm on my phone so I can't neg you, but...yeah. One of those things does not follow the other.
November 10th, 2014 at 11:10 AM ^
OW OW OW OW OW.
If you're (morbidly) interested, this also happened to Paul Shirley, and is in his book. And fortunately, this was all before he went crazy, so you can read in peace.
November 10th, 2014 at 11:22 AM ^
The injury completely sucks but the good news is Diggs should be able to play next season.
In early 2009, Kent State's star RB Eugene Jarvis was lost for the season with a lacerated kidney. As I recall, the injury took place during a game and he played the rest of the game though looked sore. Then after the game he saw blood in his urine and immediately reported it to the trainers. He sat the rest of the season and came back in 2010.
I hope Diggs was this kind of recovery. He is one of the most fun receivers I have seen in a long time. I hope for his career and his well being he is fully healthy as soon as possible.
November 10th, 2014 at 11:29 AM ^
I also saw on Twitter that Dontre Wilson(Ohio State) hurt his foot and is out for at least the end of regular season. Injuries suck man.
November 10th, 2014 at 11:38 AM ^
hit so hard that his kidney split open. That is beyond terrible
November 10th, 2014 at 11:41 AM ^
I remember that this happened to Jim McMahon in 1984, and he missed the final six games of the season. (In the story I read, he was quoted as saying that his urine looked like grape juice.) But he was back the next year to lead the Da Bears to the Super Bowl.
Best wishes to Diggs on his recovery ... and my sympathies. It hurts just to think about.
November 10th, 2014 at 11:45 AM ^
get damaged. Speedy recovery!
November 10th, 2014 at 11:56 AM ^
I was running down on the Kickoff team, and one of my teammates tackled the ball carrier from the opposite side I was running down the field. He grabbed the guy around the waste and his momentum whipped both his feet around and one of them round house kicked me right in my side between my ribs and my hip. Later I found out I only had a bruised kidney, but nothing will scare the hell out of you more then going to take a piss after the game and seeing nothing but red come out, instead of yellow. I was off my feet for more than a week with this injury and missed the last 2 games of the year, as well. Can't imagine his injury. With internal bleeding, that is nothing to mess around with.
November 10th, 2014 at 12:01 PM ^
But fortunately you only need one kidney
November 10th, 2014 at 12:17 PM ^
I'd hate the see the other guy's kidney.