Emmanuel Forbes Jr. Will Undergo Surgery to Repair a Torn UCL in His Thumb

Grant & Danny react to the news that Washington Commanders CB Emmanuel Forbes Jr. will undergo surgery tomorrow to repair a torn UCL in his thumb.

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00:00the defense's chances of bouncing back are going to have to happen without one of their starters

00:05because of some breaking injury news right now on grant and danny so let's get to that

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00:27via nikki jubbala of the washington post commander's corner emmanuel forbes will be

00:33undergoing surgery tomorrow to repair a torn ucl in his thumb a source has confirmed so this was

00:40reported elsewhere initially but locally being confirmed by nikki jubbala again emmanuel forbes

00:47to have surgery on the ucl in his thumb no timetable given on his return so we can get

00:54into this in more detail coming up in just a few minutes danny but your initial reaction i just feel

00:59for the kid i mean listen i don't think he's any good i don't think that's really what's at issue

01:03here he's trying to get himself on track right with a second uh go around with a second regime

01:08and week one was inauspicious and he's trying to climb out of this pit and that's a pretty big

01:13setback so that's a bummer man i feel for the guy i know the average listener doesn't care about this

01:17kind of stuff but i guess it looks like rap sheet had that first about six minutes ago emmanuel

01:22forbes undergoing surgery tomorrow to repair a torn ucl in the thumb a blow to the secondary for

01:26the former first round pick having the procedure now forbes will fix an issue that would have been

01:32a problem all season so it goes without saying he's not going to play this weekend now what the

01:36timeline looks like soon thereafter i'm not sure you would think in the secondary you could actually

01:41wrap that put a club on it whatever and and play football just not gonna be able to catch the

01:45football the same way but he's never had an interception in his career anyway so ideally

01:48you could go out there you could cover whatever but it's not like that has been a strength that's

01:52not the strong suit either to your point i do i feel for him because he takes a beating i mean

01:57just absolutely gets crushed not to say that it's undeserving but when you're a first round pick

02:03the expectations are very high he has not performed and he has become kind of enemy of the

02:08state number one with the fan base for the issues in the secondary and defensively and now you're

02:13getting off to a slow start with your performance then you get hurt now you're going to be out it

02:17sounds like