Might Julian Edelman Not Be Fully Cleared Until November?
BOSTON (CBS) -- Julian Edelman has seemed to be in pretty good spirits this spring as he's been spotted at Boston Calling and on Nantucket while wearing a walking boot. But some news about Dez Bryant's recovery from a broken bone in his foot might be putting a damper on Edelman's summer and fall.
After suffering a Jones fracture in his foot last September, and though he returned to the field for Dallas in November, he clearly was no 100 percent. Now, nine months later, the receiver has finally gotten a clean bill of health.
Edelman also suffered a Jones fracture, though he suffered his injury in November. He returned for the playoffs in January, but he underwent surgery on May 11.
Bryant underwent his surgery in early January.
By that timeline of a five-month recovery from surgery, Edelman may not be fully cleared for contact until November.
"So you mean to tell me that if he is going to line up and it's going to be identical to the type of recovery that Dez Bryant has because of the area of the foot, the external weight-bearing bone that there's no muscle around, and this is the type of time you need to heal it and the type of surgery you have to do to strengthen it, he's going to be cleared in ... November?" asked Scott Zolak on Thursday's Zo & Bertrand Show. "Before, we kind of anticipated he'd maybe miss four games, maybe he'd miss September."
"The bye week is November 6th, and that's after eight games," noted Marc Bertrand. "It's right in the middle."
"It may be different," Zolak said. "He may be ready to go. I don't know that. But this is no injury that you mess around with. This ended Ty Law's career. This ends a lot of careers. This makes you cover-able if it's not right, and I think that was part of what happened here when the workouts started. [The plan was that] time was going to heal it, and he was going to feel good. There's two avenues you can go down: one is time and rest and it's going to heal itself, or quickly do a surgery, bone graft, strengthen the area, and then we have a little bit more of a rehab, but you'll be ready to go. I think he came back and it didn't feel right, and they said let's stop screwing around, let's fix it.
"But yeah, it makes me worried about the beginning of the year again," Zo added. "Because I think they're a different team without Edelman. I don't care who the sub is. I don't care about Chris Hogan. I don't care about Danny Amendola. They're a different team without Number 11."
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