Clay Matthews Played Part Of The 2010 Season With A Broken Leg
The Green Bay Press-Gazette's Rob Demovsky reports that Clay Matthews played the second half of last season with a stress fracture in his leg.
By maxginsberg
In an otherwise uneventful Tuesday in the National Football League, linebacker Clay Matthews casually mentioned to Green Bay Press-Gazette reporter Rob Demovsky that he played the second half of last season with a broken leg.
While answering a question about how the loss of Cullen Jenkins will affect him this season, Matthews revealed the injury news.
“I also had a stress fracture in four of those games (that Jenkins also missed),” Matthews said. “But nobody knows that. I had a stress fracture in my leg. A sore shin as you guys call it, but that’s all right. Obviously, I’m not making excuses.”
NFL injury reports are often underreported or even misreported throughout the season – just ask Bill Belichick – and it should come as no surprise that Packers coach Mike McCarthy is no different than 31 other coaches when listing players on the injury report.
Comments (8)
August 10, 2011 at 09:36 am
Now that's hardcore...not smart, but hardcore
August 10, 2011 at 10:39 am
He did it on purpose to give the opposition a chance. Very sportsmanlike of him, really.
August 10, 2011 at 10:54 am
With just one leg CM3 is still better than most LB's. A true mans man.
August 10, 2011 at 01:04 pm
Isn't there going to be some sort of fine for the Packers since they kept this off the injury report? I always wonder how things like this manage to be kept so quiet.
August 10, 2011 at 01:18 pm
No. It's just like with the specifics of a knee injury, most teams just list it as a 'knee' with no detail. They listed it as a 'shin', so he was technically on the report, technically the right anatomical area.
August 10, 2011 at 01:23 pm
OK Clay, when we said to "break a leg" we didn't mean...
August 10, 2011 at 02:00 pm
I had shin splints in high school. It's not that painful, unless you fall right flat down on them. Then it hurts, and your leg can't support weight for awhile. Although that happened to me on a basketball court, not a grass field. Probly would hurt alot of artificial turf though.
Anyway, I not only played on them, I continued running cross country. They just get sore from all the pounding at times.
August 11, 2011 at 05:39 am
Dawg...
http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2010/10/15