Tarik Black Has A Foot Injury Comment Count

Brian

Michigan states what they know so far about the injury rumors flying around last night:

Feldman provides some additional, unfortunate detail:

The appropriate response to this is to yell an expletive and think about throwing your coffee mug but not actually throwing it. It'll be fine! Maybe!

Comments

Durham Blue

August 26th, 2018 at 3:22 PM ^

Man, I feel bad for Tarik.  I am hoping for a speedy recovery and that he can be back for maybe the last three or four games.  We're gonna need him in the CFP.

Section 1.8

August 26th, 2018 at 3:25 PM ^

I'd like to hear from an orthopedist or a physiatrist about the notion that a broken bone in one foot (or some other orthopedic injury) causes increased stress in the other foot.  There are more than 20 bones, and more than a hundred ligaments and muscles in one foot.  An awfully complicated piece of machinery.  It's really odd, how an injury to one foot could predispose an injury in the other.

And I had a personal interest in this insofar as I ruptured an Achilles, and had the reparative surgery done at UM by one of the football team's surgeons.  I asked very simply whether I was then prone to rupture the other one, and he said that it had been studied by the post-operative researchers, and there was NO increased likelihood in an Achilles injury to the opposite side.

(My own repair, and my opposite Achilles, have been just fine.)

 

 

Synful

August 26th, 2018 at 3:29 PM ^

Two in two seasons.  Are we sure he isn't too fragile for college football???

Don't suppose there's a diamond in the rough somewhere in the UM student body that could walk on and help?  

BuckNekked

August 26th, 2018 at 3:44 PM ^

Personally, Im more worried about Tarik and his future than I am the team. The team will be fine. Next man up. Martin, Schoenle and Nico get more playing time and should provide more than adequate cover for Tarik. But this is a young mans dreams we are talking about. Lets all keep that in perspective.

poppinfresh

August 26th, 2018 at 3:46 PM ^

feel better tarik. cant imagine the emotions after working so hard to be back and only a week away

 

be lucky if he is 80% of what he was (as of yesterday) for osu, conditioning, working back, reps. probably wont be close to right till bowl game

kevbo1

August 26th, 2018 at 3:46 PM ^

Hopefully, Ambry and or Hawkins will start working with the WR.  One more receiver goes down and it's trouble.

True Blue Grit

August 26th, 2018 at 3:47 PM ^

Dammit.  We can never get through a fall practice without some significant injury.  I think this is one we can overcome assuming the hype about Nico and Oliver Martin is legit.  (Plus all our other weapons who can catch the ball).  But the WR depth is definitely looking thin.  Michigan will need Schoenle and or Bell to step up.  

MGoStrength

August 26th, 2018 at 4:43 PM ^

That sucks for Tarik.  I feel bad for the kid.  That has to play havoc on your mental state when you do finally get back on the field.  Hopefully for his sake it's not as serious as we all fear and he can make a comeback the second half of this season.  In the meantime it's next man up.  The bright side is Collins had a good fall camp this should give him & Martin more opportunities to enhance their development and make us stronger when Black does return.  Plus we should still be able to rely on DPJ & Perry.  But, this does put a dent in our depth, particularly with Crawford & McDoom gone.  

Dizzy

August 26th, 2018 at 4:46 PM ^

Curious, could he potentially use last year's injury as a medshirt and take this year as his regular redshirt, effectively giving him a 6th year? I doubt he'd stay that long, but who knows what the future holds-- Kekoa and McDoom sure looked good as freshmen. 

MichiganMan24

August 27th, 2018 at 11:05 AM ^

This really sucks but after thinking about it for a little while I don't think this is a death knell for our offense or for the receiver group. We have a plethora or TEs on the roster that are receiving threats and Nico & Oliver Martin have a year of apprenticeship under their belts.

However if we lose another receiver or TE to injury then it may be time to sound the alarms...