Russell Wilson's Calf Injury: A Deep Dive into Recovery Risks

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00:00We'll start with this. I have always said to you and others, guys with bad hamstrings

00:09and calves, remain that way until they're better. Guys that come back early from hamstrings

00:15and calves and think they're better, but actually aren't better, have what's happening to Russell

00:21Wilson right now.

00:23Yeah, let me explain the Russell Wilson situation. So, Wilson had a calf strain to begin training

00:30camp, right? He missed the early portion. I saw him when he came back to practice when

00:35I was there for two days in La Trobe. Looked fine, okay? He's had no issues. Until now.

00:40It's the same calf, by the way, that they're listing on the injury report for. He's getting

00:46reevaluated. We'll see what happens tomorrow. It's not good. Tomorrow's the last day of

00:50practice for the week, and they travel Saturday. Of course, Justin Fields took over for him

00:56when he couldn't practice and couldn't finish. So, that's not good. Because your Steelers,

01:00by the way, they're bagged up on the offensive line, right? We'll get to that in a second.

01:05Rowan Wilson, which I told you a couple weeks ago, it's actually a high ankle sprain, not

01:08a normal ankle sprain. Their third round pick, receiver out of Michigan. They're not very

01:13deep wide receiver. This worries me, Scott. With their injuries on the offensive line,

01:18and you're talking about an older quarterback in his mid-30s. You worry about these kind of

01:22injuries as quarterbacks get older. These tend to linger, by the way. You've got to be careful

01:27with calf. You know, as a basketball player, these things can reoccur, which has just happened now on

01:31the same calf that he had. I'm going back, Scott, the first week of August, okay? You're talking

01:37about a month ago. That does worry me, and time's running out here. They've got to get this thing

01:41right. And they made that trade for Justin Fields, as you know. There's a reason why they

01:46have him on the football field. By the way, as I say, Amal is not going to play, who was their

01:51best lineman last year. One of their starting guards was the pectoral strain, but Tano took all the

01:57starters reps today, who's going to be their starting right tackle. That's good. Hopefully,

02:01there will not be setback with that MCL sprain. So, right now, he's turning towards being able

02:05to play, but again, their deftly offensive line's not good. But defensively, and we'll talk more

02:10about this tomorrow, they're pretty healthy. And when you look at the Falcons, Kyle Pitts,

02:14by the way, returned to practice today. He gave everybody a scare, particularly people

02:18who play fantasy, but he's fine. He took all his reps today with that hamstring issue.