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Anyway. Jackson getting injured is not the same thing and not what I was asking about....

It may not be what you asked about.....but it is a result of 'wear and tear'..

First I don't accept that any and all injuries are results of "wear and tear." Injuries can happen at any time to anyone, because they are direct results of on the field actions causing a particular trauma. There are players with extensive playing time who don't get injured, and there are players with very little playing time who do get injured. In fact I doubt SJ's quad had anything to do with "wear and tear." Either way there's no evidence that it did.

Gurley's thing was not an injury. That's why it wasn't reported as one. (Unless you're claiming they failed to report an injury.)

So in Gurley's case, since we know it's not an injury, what is it? Maybe the wearing down of a surgical knee? But that's a vague and general thing to say, because many different things can happen that would meet the empty generalization "worn down surgical knee" (just as saying you had a meal could mean you ate any of a long possible list of things). There are names and specific details describing the various things that can happen to a beat up surgical knee (Martz once sat Faulk for a couple of weeks, for example, because he had a bone bruise on his surgical knee). In Gurley's case we just don't know what it is. Though it doesn't just reduce to simply "knee tired now." Something physical was taking place when he got pain and inflammation (both times). It's just that neither of us know what it is (which means, among other things, that there's no realistic basis to write off Gurley's knee issues and act like nothing happened.)

Can it come back? They're acting like it could, since they talk about reducing his touches. In fact they would be crazy to act like it COULDN'T come back---they HAVE TO act like it could. Will it? Depends on what it is, so we just don't know. It might, it might not, it might happen in November, or like 2018 it could happen twice (as McVay and Gurley both said it did).

Does that mean, to quip back at the quipsters, that he's walking with a cane? No, guys with worse knee issues played in the league for a while before they called it quits (I already mentioned Faulk and Holt).