Jonathan Brooks injury

[App Panther]

Just now, emhoward said:

If I'm a GM, I'm not taking a RB in the first two rounds unless they are a transcendent talent. Brooks was good, but nowhere near transcendent. 

Pretty much this. Of all the injuries for a RB too, you took one with an ACL tear. Just insane. Especially when RB wasn't even in our Top 5 need positions. Maybe not even Top 10.

[Castavar]

Hmm, it's almost as if trading up to draft a devalued position in the early rounds that is already coming off an ACL tear is a bad idea.

[BrewerHouseBeer]

I'm assuming he wont play at all next season either. Lets hope for the best in 2026.

[UnluckyforSome]

The mascot is a black cat.

[outlaw4]

Worst case, there's always another back we can draft next year. Just don’t spend a high pick on one.

[emhoward]

2 minutes ago, App Panther said:

Pretty much this. Of all the injuries for a RB too, you took one with an ACL tear. Just insane. Especially when RB wasn't even in our Top 5 need positions. Maybe not even Top 10.

And then traded up to do it. Just doesn't make sense. 

[Ricky Spanish]

Sucks for Brooks. Hope he comes back and has a long career.

[HaricotVert]

Hate it for the dude.  These guys dedicate their lives to getting to the NFL and for JB to have it slip from his fingertips has got to suck in ways most of us cant appreciate.

[Fenrir]

Feel horrible for the kid. 

I'm hoping someone in the organization gets him in touch with TD.

There is light at the end of the tunnel, he'll just need to attack his rehab.

Reminder to all that Adrian Peterson tore his ACL/MCL and came back with one of the best rushing seasons in NFL history. 

Edited December 9 by Fenrir

[OneBadCat]

Feel awful for the guy. Seems like he has a lot of talent too. We won't have a choice but to bring in another back in the offseason. 

[Greatman77]

Man that is disappointing. I feel bad for the kid... Playing in the NFL is cruel to the human body.

[WhoKnows]

4 hours ago, CanadianCat said:

Its funny... a lot of people on the board celebrate the loss, cause they want a better draft pick, but then crap on the Brooks pick because he got injured.. 

Like you would think that those same people would be happy that he's heading to IR as it reduces the chance of us winning games while brining a talented player back next year..

 

This makes no sense. We don’t celebrate the loss, but we aren’t sad that we had almost won a game no one gave us a chance to win and we also stayed in a top 5 pick.

Brooks getting hurt is good because Chuba’s been a strength already so Brooks wasn’t winning us games with 3 carries. Brooks also isn’t “back next year” if he tore his ACL. He got hurt in November of 2023 and he has 8 carries in 13 games. He just got hurt in December of 2024, do you actually think he’ll have a significant impact on next year? Based on the last recovery timeline, he might be off IR and getting eased into the lineup in week 14 next year.

People are upset that we had a stud C available who’s helping Pittsburgh have a great year and we took a RB that is effectively missing his first two years as a 2nd round pick.

Winning by losing a very close game and Brooks being hurt again are two completely different things.

[WhoKnows]

10 minutes ago, App Panther said:

Pretty much this. Of all the injuries for a RB too, you took one with an ACL tear. Just insane. Especially when RB wasn't even in our Top 5 need positions. Maybe not even Top 10.

There’s a handful of day 3 RBs in the same draft having decent seasons.

[Shotgun]

19 hours ago, CanadianCat said:

Easy to call it a bad pick now... We didn't think Chuba would be this good..

Its as easy now as it was then.