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waterfield
"It confuses things to call an old surgery and ensuing arthritic condition an "injury" because an injury is, instead, something different. It is a bruise, cut, tear, or break that comes from a single event like a hit or collision and must be treated, repaired, or heal."
But it did come from a single trauma. The torn ACL at Georgia. That surgery IMO has resulted in arthritic flareups now and then significant enough for the Rams to move on. I don't care how the NFL defines it. I'm a fan not part of the Rams. In my mind the "injury" occurred when he tore up his ACL in college, had major surgery, and more likely than not he has arthritis in that knee which "flares" up in unpredictable ways.
Do you not agree that he injured his knee at Georgia? Do you not agree that his arthritic flareups are consistent with his injury and surgery at Georgia ?
My main point being--one thing counts as an injury in the NFL, the other (arthritis) is a condition (regardless of the cause) and does not have to be reported.
If TG has an actual injury in 2018, it would have to be reported.