Brandon Graham's Injury Update: Super Bowl Return Possible

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00:00Brandon Graham, who tore his left triceps, folks, if you don't know what that is, your

00:05triceps is your outer arm from your elbow to near the top of your shoulder.

00:09He tore it.

00:10He had surgery.

00:11Now, he got hurt week 12 at the Rams at SoFi Stadium where he was having an amazing game.

00:17He was their third edge rusher, the first guy off the bench.

00:19And, Scott, he told reporters he's done for the season.

00:22Well, guess what?

00:24In recent weeks, he kind of hinted on WIP in Philly in his radio interviews that he

00:29thought if they got to the Super Bowl, he'd have a chance to play and voila, here we go.

00:33He's getting some light work in.

00:34This is the test week for Brandon Graham, number 55, at 36 years old, Scott.

00:40What he's doing is this week, he's testing it.

00:43He's trying to see what kind of power he has.

00:45By the way, he's wearing a brace on his left elbow, so he's trying to see what kind of

00:50power he has, what kind of punch he has.

00:53And they'll make a decision off of that with what he'll do in practice next week when they

00:58start practicing next Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in New Orleans.

01:01But this is amazing news, Scott.

01:04The typical surgery for left triceps, or any triceps injury, quite frankly, when you have

01:09the repair, is four to five months where you get full healing.

01:13Obviously, here, you're not getting full healing.

01:15But he kind of hinted to reporters, Scott, this week that it's working.

01:20So right now, he said he's working before he threw it.

01:23But so far, it's working.

01:24I find it hard to believe.

01:26But you know what?

01:28Never count a guy out.

01:29I remember covering the 05 Super Bowl when Terrell Owens was coming back from this ankle

01:32fracture.

01:33He came back four weeks to six weeks in advance, and he said he was about 75% of healing and

01:41effectiveness.

01:42And guess what?

01:43He had a great game against his Patriots.

01:44Yeah, I'm a little sketchy on, A, if he should play, and then, you know, he's wearing this

01:51brace and that he thinks he's, you know, ready to go and healed and all the rest when

01:57the, you know, like a doctor, like Dr. Chow would say, it's four months, it's five months,

02:04and this guy's trying to pull this off.

02:06I'm a little leery of it.

02:08But what I really want to know is, is he going to retire?

02:11That's the question, because he's old, and it's over, and he's got all this other stuff

02:15going on, podcasts and everything else.

02:17Certainly, he's opened his mouth up a lot, and it got him in trouble putting his foot

02:21in his mouth.

02:22And, you know, what do you think he's going to do?

02:25And then talk about the Chiefs.

02:28So BG, as we call him here in Philly, number 55, the first round pick out of Michigan in

02:332010.

02:34Now, he announced before the season started that he was going to be retiring.

02:37This is it.

02:38But he's backed off in the last four to six weeks.

02:41This is before he knew that he might be able to play.

02:43What he did say was that, and I'm just going to paraphrase here, he wanted to see how the

02:48rehab went for this repair to that left triceps.

02:52But I look at it this way, Scott, knowing players as I do, and just talking to them

02:54over the years about retirement, let's say they lose this game by three.

02:58It's really close.

03:00He may change his mind and want to come back for one more year, try to win another ring.

03:03Remember, he won in 2017, as you know, the strip sack against Tom Brady.

03:07They needed it against Brady there in Minneapolis.

03:11But the bottom line is, he's still leaning towards retirement, but he's not definitely

03:15going to do it.

03:16He's kind of hedged.

03:17He's kind of hedged it.

03:18And I'm sure what happens here in this game next Sunday is going to go a long way to doing

03:23it.

03:24And he turns 37, Scott, in April.

03:26As we know, Scott, no one plays this late in their career.

03:28I mean, it's just remarkable what he's done.

03:30You know what's interesting, Scott, in Philly, if you remember, the fans wanted Earl Thomas.

03:35They wanted Jason Pierre Paul.

03:36They got neither.

03:37And who's the guy who's outlasted them all?

03:40One Brandon Graham.

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