Deone Walker played last season with a broken back

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Deone Walker Played His Junior Season with a Fracture in his Back

It was not the season Deone Walker envisioned. The enormous defensive lineman from Detroit was a projected first round pick, fresh off an All-SEC season. Another explosive year at Kentucky would lead him on a path to professional success. The funny thing about plans, they often change. After...

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Definitely explains why his play wasn't as good this past season

 

[M4CAT]

All the best to him in the upcoming draft. Hope he can get fully healthy for a successful and long NFL career.

 

[Cat_Man_Blue]

I was hoping he would be successful in the NFL, now I am hoping he has an all pro type career. Things didn't add up this last season, now we know.

 

[TuckyFB]

I knew he had a back injury but didn't know his back was broken. Deone is the man. I can't wait to follow his NFL career.

 

[TucsonCat]

But all the tough guy football geniuses here said he was just lazy.

Appreciate him fighting through it. Hope his stock goes back up.

 

[PopesReignOverCardinals]

Hope his stock goes back up.

Assuming it's not a lingering issue, then some team is going to get great value in the round 2-3. Good luck to Deone!

 

[Boz]

I think Deone has all the potential in the world when he is giving max effort, he is a top 5 talent. I do question his drive and desire to be the best. He is always injured or taking a lot of plays off. Still by the end of April he will be making a lot more money than I and will be considered rich.

 

[Rembrandt90]

Deone Walker Played His Junior Season with a Fracture in his Back

It was not the season Deone Walker envisioned. The enormous defensive lineman from Detroit was a projected first round pick, fresh off an All-SEC season. Another explosive year at Kentucky would lead him on a path to professional success. The funny thing about plans, they often change. After...

www.on3.com

Definitely explains why his play wasn't as good this past season

The article is click bait. Reading it, you would almost think Deone played his junior season in a wheel chair. Speaking as a spondylolysis patient myself, the term "broken back" has connotations that do not apply here. It's a chip on a vertebra. Discomfort is easily treated with a common injection that can be repeated. Here is the tell. The NFL draft is the financial opportunity of a lifetime for most of these kids. If I am reading correctly, spondylolysis is a common condition among people who do heavy work. If Deone believed his 2024 season was significantly comprised by a back injury that "healed itself", he would return for his senior year, bet on himself, and improve his draft position. I'm not digging on Deone here. I'm putting the article and its use of the phrase "broken back" in context. Deone did not have a very good season, but I doubt this was the primary reason.

 

[Grumpyolddawg]

The article is click bait. Reading it, you would almost think Deone played his junior season in a wheel chair. Speaking as a spondylolysis patient myself, the term "broken back" has connotations that do not apply here. It's a chip on a vertebra. Discomfort is easily treated with a common injection that can be repeated. Here is the tell. The NFL draft is the financial opportunity of a lifetime for most of these kids. If I am reading correctly, spondylolysis is a common condition among people who do heavy work. If Deone believed his 2024 season was significantly comprised by a back injury that "healed itself", he would return for his senior year, bet on himself, and improve his draft position. I'm not digging on Deone here. I'm putting the article and its use of the phrase "broken back" in context. Deone did not have a very good season, but I doubt this was the primary reason.

My dad had the same type injury at 80 years old, and walked home. Wrecked is ATV and couldn't get it back in it's wheels. All broken backs aren't equal, Dad's just hurt for awhile, he was in no danger of paralysis. I that was the same case as Walkers.

 

[elkceekcat]

Deone Walker Played His Junior Season with a Fracture in his Back

It was not the season Deone Walker envisioned. The enormous defensive lineman from Detroit was a projected first round pick, fresh off an All-SEC season. Another explosive year at Kentucky would lead him on a path to professional success. The funny thing about plans, they often change. After...

www.on3.com

Definitely explains why his play wasn't as good this past season

he may have had a crack in a disk, but he would have been in a body cast with a broken back

 

[STL_Cat]

Thpinal.

 

[ManitouDan]

I'm not into excuses 6 months after the season. I watched him totally mail it in and he quit . His conditioning was trash and he let his enormous talents go to waste last year . I'm not buying this " broken back " story

 

[BlueRaider22]

The article is click bait. Reading it, you would almost think Deone played his junior season in a wheel chair. Speaking as a spondylolysis patient myself, the term "broken back" has connotations that do not apply here. It's a chip on a vertebra. Discomfort is easily treated with a common injection that can be repeated. Here is the tell. The NFL draft is the financial opportunity of a lifetime for most of these kids. If I am reading correctly, spondylolysis is a common condition among people who do heavy work. If Deone believed his 2024 season was significantly comprised by a back injury that "healed itself", he would return for his senior year, bet on himself, and improve his draft position. I'm not digging on Deone here. I'm putting the article and its use of the phrase "broken back" in context. Deone did not have a very good season, but I doubt this was the primary reason.

This is true. As a Physical Therapist, we see "spondies" very frequently. In fact, most people have them for decades and decades and never know they have them. I'd even go as far as to say that only about 10% of the people I see that have "spondies" actually have pain originating from the fracture site itself.....but rather from other etiologies.