Zinter Suffers Broken Leg

Blake Corum flashes #65 on his TD for Zak.  On the very next play.

I love how these kids love each other and are in tune  

That’s a Harbaugh locker room. 

I believe it’s tibia and fibula. 

As mentioned below, tibia and fibula.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10098661-michigan-ol-zak-zinter-suffered-broken-tibia-fibula-injury-vs-osu-having-surgery

This makes me smile.  Go Zinters!  Go Blue!  Prayers

Love this

ZZ is our jolly good fellow! Warrior and leader.  Won't ever buy a dinner or drink the rest of his life in AA.

God bless Zak Zinter

God bless Mr and Mrs Zinter

God bless Meeeechigan!!!

Encouraging.  Thank you for sharing the full story, in non-ESPN linked format.  

This may sound weird, but broken bones are likely an easier recovery that what could have happened. My daughter snapped her fibula playing soccer.  She was really lucky, could have been much worse.

“When it happened, I looked back and Zak was screaming and (right tackle) Karsen (Barnhart) was literally holding (Zinter’s) foot as it was just limp,” McCarthy said. “It was a sight I don’t wish upon anyone to see. And at that moment, seeing the look in everybody’s eyes, seeing them rally together, there was something about it. It was spiritual, honestly. It was a different drive that came out of everybody after that happened because we’re doing for one of our leaders and one of the brothers we all love.”

You’re not wrong. As long as the bones can be set well and secured he can make a 100% recovery. With any ligament injury there are likely to be issues, if not right away than somewhere down the line (arthritis, joint weakness, bone spurs or adhesions due to alignment changes in the joint, etc). 

"It depends" is the cheap answer but really the only correct one. Tonights surgery will likely be what we call an "ex fix", temporary stabilization of the bones, with definitive surgeries to follow in the next days/weeks. I'm interpreting surgery being ~4-5 hours after arriving at the hospital to mean there were no major injuries to blood vessels, no concern for a compartment system syndrome of the leg (meaning a devastating limb threatening emergency, like tiger woods had), and that he was overall very stable. If this was a severe, limb threatening, injury I can promise you they wouldn't be letting him FaceTime the team in the ER. Reading the medical tea leaves leaves me optimistic for our dude to make a good recovery. 

Bro don't project anything. There are 3-5 OL waiting to portal in.  We cannot take any undergrads from Harvard Yale MIT or Stanford because their credits are shit to our admissions but grad transfers yes. 

Guards generally don't go high like tackles, it was looking like 2nd round for him as a top 2-3 guard.  If he drops to the 4th a very savvy franchise like the Steelers or Packers will take him and wait on a year and get an All Pro for a decade.

p.s. the Lions probably need to let Jonah Jackson go as they pay their tackles and center, cannot pay everyone with a lot of extensions about to hit - this is exactly the type of leader and warrior you want to draft in the 3rd round.

Deep down, you’re a good dude. A dick, but a good dude ;-)