Skins' WRs

[RMSkins]

Originally Posted by freddyg12

I give our front office credit for exhausting all potential options that are on the market, however we pursued Loyd & ARE (who I like a lot) when Denver (always a thorn in our offseason side) made a trade for Javon Walker, a bona fide big play wr.
oh well, we've got to move on w/what we've got. I wonder how bad Loyd's shin splints are & how it came about. I only remember runners getting shin splints from running on pavement too much.

I used to get shin splints when I played High School football, they're pretty painful, but I played through them with some help from advil. I don't understand how Lloyd has missed two weeks of practice, with a minor injury such as shin splints. They should be completely healed by now.

[freddyg12]

Originally Posted by RMSkins

I used to get shin splints when I played High School football, they're pretty painful, but I played through them with some help from advil. I don't understand how Lloyd has missed two weeks of practice, with a minor injury such as shin splints. They should be completely healed by now.

That's what I thought. I also thought you couldn't get shin splints unless you've been doing an awful lot of pounding. Given the time period of his injury (out most of 2 weeks), that would mean he was running an awful lot prior to camp starting. It's possible I guess, just doesn't sound like a legit injury.

I'll leave it to Bubba though, shin splints may be related to something else & they're advising him not to practice. JLC's blog today said that Loyd wanted to go saturday night but they wouldn't let him.

No matter what the extent of his injury, he came in as the #3 & Thrash has been having a great camp, so he might be #4 & falling.