Posted on 12/04/2017 7:46:03 PM PST by EdnaMode
A scary scene unfolded at Paul Brown Stadium Monday night.
Steelers linebacker Ryan Shazier had to be carted off the field after he led with his helmet on a tackle attempt early in the first quarter of the Steelers’ game against the Bengals.
Shazier drilled his helmet into the side of Bengals receiver Josh Malone, causing his neck to buckle and his legs to go limp.
Shazier immediately grabbed his lower back and remained motionless on the ground for several moments before being taken off the field on a stretcher. He did not have feeling in his lower body, according to NFL.com.
Shazier immediately left the stadium in an ambulance and was taken to UC Trauma Center in Cincinnati. He kept pointing to his waist prior to leaving, according to NFL Network.
The Steelers refused to comment on his condition, describing his status as “unavailable.”
Shazier, 25, has quickly developed into the Steelers' leader on defense since being drafted in the first round in 2014. Shazier was named to his first Pro Bowl last season after recording 87 tackles, 3.5 sacks, 3 forced fumbles and 3 interceptions.
Rugby has terrible injuries.
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Rugby players who lead with the head won’t last long. They’ll end up quadriplegic or worse. They’re trained to absorb the momentum with their bodies, with team mates helping (blocking isn’t allowed) to bring the ball carrier down, then immediately jump back up because the guy they just tackled will be poised to foot the ball back to a team mate within seconds. Think endless laterals and the center quarterback exchange by foot. Entirely different sport.
Football is a stupid sport.
Bungee jumping has its malfunctions.
I saw the play....I thought I saw him moving his legs. He rolled over from his stomach to his back which is pretty difficult to donwithlut the use if your legs.
He was also flexing his hands as if he had a nasty stinger.
My money is on he will be ok physically but as far as his career....who knows.
Keep the helmets and give the offense bats. ;-)
-PJ
Yeah, at least add some padding to the exterior helment.
As it turns out the Saints player is going to be fine. He had a ruptured disk and had surgery for it. He is out for the season but doctors say it won’t end his career, unless he chooses not to play.
He moves his left foot.
Which might mean that he wasn't just turned into a paraplegic.
The NFL is anti-american garbage that no one should watch.
That said, I hope this guy recovers.
I’m sure his neck is fine, but if he didn’t break his back it must be sprained pretty badly.
strictly enforce HGH and steroid use would go along way towards stopping life altering accidents...
“...What a wasted life....”
All those NFL thugs are wasted lives. The NFL and it’s player thugs are dead to me. I wish this guy no harm, but he knew what he was getting into.
I mean, really, IF it weren’t for the ball, most of these clowns would be on a chain gang somewhere cleaning out ditches and stuff. You know, something useful. Or they could be shining shoes at the airport, or opening doors and carrying luggage at the hotel....yeah, something useful that’s more in line with their mentality.
“Football players need to take tackling lessons from rugby players”
Seriously? Rugby players don’t wear protective gear, so they do not have full body contact in each play like the NFL players do. Sort of like MMA vs Boxing. Boxers are well padded, so they can go for half an hour of punching to the head. MMS players get a lot less, because their knuckles aren’t protected with padding. A clean punch from a lot less technical striker would get anyone KOd. Not so in boxing.
Ironically, the only way to make NFL safer is to take all protective gears out except for the mouthguard. No more tackling running 25 mph straight into a 350lbs offensive line.
I hope it’s not serious.
Not a good game at all. Steelers playing sloppy game.
It is against the rules to fall on a qb, I believe.
It’s just turned into a war zone, one helmet-to-helmet hit after another.
No amount of training will outpace the laws of physics. A helmet can protect against a skull fracture but it is little use against brain injury from impacts like this. Progressive traumatic dementia is no joke, not some political scam. It was recognized nearly a hundred years ago, they called it Dementia pugilistica, what we came to call "punch drunk" because it was seen among boxers. And yes 12 year olds can and do suffer concussion level impacts in football.
Not if the QB has the ball or just threw it. Happens a few times every game. Week after week.
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