A note on Zion Nelson

[TheOriginalCane]

Botched surgery and/or recovery on a simple knee cleanup lead to further injury and ultimately resulted in him shredding the rest of the cartilage and now has to live with no cartilage in that knee. Too painful to do actual football movements.

Bone rubbing bone in his knee socket.

Sorry, just saw your post.

 

[HurricanesR1]

link?

https://247sports.com/college/miami/article/miami-hurricanes-football-coach-mario-cristobal-rb-mark-fletcher-and-dl-akheem-mesidor-will-be-ready-for-fall-camp-234116130/

It's the very last thing written:

Often injured offensive lineman Zion Nelson had to medically retire from football, according to Cristobal. Nelson played 2,452 snaps on offense from 2019-21, but never fully recovered from an injury that was sustained in 2022.

 

[skyman]

Dam.. another notch for uhellth @rok

 

[Coach Macho]

Botched surgery and/or recovery on a simple knee cleanup lead to further injury and ultimately resulted in him shredding the rest of the cartilage and now has to live with no cartilage in that knee. Too painful to do actual football movements.

Bone rubbing bone in his knee socket.

I have that issue in my right knee.
Terrible stuff. Constant pain.

Sucks for the kid.

 

[90scane]

I hope he can drop a ton of weight. He will need a replacement knee in the future. The longer he can extend his actual one the better.

 

[Canesfan1899]

Mario said he had to medically retire -
So the saga officially ends

Feel for the young man.

 

[Ziggy]

I have that issue in my right knee.
Terrible stuff. Constant pain.

Sucks for the kid.

I've got the same issue. Never had any major injuries or surgery either. Any tips? lol

 

[3FW]

Joins a list of potential NFL superstars:

Ahmon Richards, Anthony Reddick, Stephen McGuire, Rusty Medearis and Zion. Kid gave everything he had to get back on the field

 

[Shooter McGavin]

Joins a list of potential NFL superstars:

Ahmon Richards, Anthony Reddick, Stephen McGuire, Rusty Medearis and Zion. Kid gave everything he had to get back on the field

Malik Young

 

[GrozDozer]

I have that issue in my right knee.
Terrible stuff. Constant pain.

Sucks for the kid.

Yep same. Doesn’t help I’m washed and a dad and gaining weight. Sometimes a wrong step and my knee will wobble and pop and I’ll cuss like **** and limp for a few hours while it gets stiff and painful. Sucks.

 

[CanesFan20]

He wasn't on the level of an Ahmon Richard's and a future 1st round lock but Zion Nelson had a legit NFL future and really should be there right now. His dreams were killed due to something completely out of his control, definitely feel bad for the guy.

 

[grover]

Malik Young

Malcolm Lewis

 

[HurricanesR1]

Malcolm Lewis

De'Andre Wilder

 

[grover]

Wishing nothing but the best for Zion Nelson.

I know it's no one's fault. But I was screaming back in 2019 that the kid should not play anything more than mop-up duty and be redshirted because he had put on too much weight too quickly and his body needed to catch up. This kid was no Mauigoa, no Samson, no Cooper. He weighed 220 pounds as a HS junior and 15 months later was an early matric to Miami playing at 280 being touted as our starting OT. Just pure madness. Searels and Barry were the worst of the worst.

I must be a contrarian. Because I didn't like the take when he committed (more mad at the staff than him per se), and moped constantly on here that we were playing him too early. But I became one of his biggest fans during his third year when he started to look like a legit player, while everyone else was writing him off. I think he could have (should have) been special.

 

[grover]

De'Andre Wilder

I never saw it with Wilder. But I'm always saddened when a kid's dreams are lost to injury... Reminds me. Whatever happened with D Jax? Did he ever win that local election after retiring from football?

 

[Shooter McGavin]

Malcolm Lewis

Lewis played 5 years. I thought he was going to be a good one after the BC game in 2012.

 

[johnnytsunami01]

Heartbreaking to be honest, I thought he was going to be a star

 

[rsa coral gables]

Botched surgery and/or recovery on a simple knee cleanup lead to further injury and ultimately resulted in him shredding the rest of the cartilage and now has to live with no cartilage in that knee. Too painful to do actual football movements.

Bone rubbing bone in his knee socket.

this is awful. wouldn't fix a flat create some artificial cartilage?

 

[rsa coral gables]

Botched surgery and/or recovery on a simple knee cleanup lead to further injury and ultimately resulted in him shredding the rest of the cartilage and now has to live with no cartilage in that knee. Too painful to do actual football movements.

Bone rubbing bone in his knee socket.

i have the same issue on my right ACL repaired right knee. i can work all day writing elaborate contracts, leases, MIPAs, OAs and other documents. if i can do it, **** Zion should be able to do the same

 

[yuhot]

I wonder if he can sue the surgeon if true.