Terrible News: De'Cody Fagg Injury Potentially Career Ending

[BigEasyTider]

There is some terrible news out regarding former Florida State wide receiver De'Cody Fagg. You guys will best remember him as the tall, quick receiver who lit up Marquis Johnson this past year in Jacksonsville.

He was looking at a pretty bright NFL career, and traveled to Indianapolis to participate in the NFL Scouting Combine. Unfortunately, yesterday he injured his knee doing some of the drills. And now many are dubbing the injury career ending. An NFC running backs coach called it one of the worst injuries he has ever seen.

Let's all hope that everything works out okay for this young man.

 

[Tidewater]

There is some terrible news out regarding former Florida State wide receiver De'Cody Fagg. You guys will best remember him as the tall, quick receiver who lit up Marquis Johnson this past year in Jacksonsville.

He was looking at a pretty bright NFL career, and traveled to Indianapolis to participate in the NFL Scouting Combine. Unfortunately, yesterday he injured his knee doing some of the drills. And now many are dubbing the injury career ending. An NFC running backs coach called it one of the worst injuries he has ever seen.

Let's all hope that everything works out okay for this young man.

Sorry to hear that. The only silver lining to this is that maybe players will realize that sports, as a means of earning your living, can go away in the blink of an eye. You better have a Plan B.
For a NFL coach to call it the worst injury he has every seen, it must have been bad. I bet he has seen a lot of bad injuries.

 

[Bama1970]

Does anyone know if DF was one of the players caught up in the grade scandle at FSU this year. I really hate to hear about his injury, and I hope he wasn't involved in the grade scandle because as much publicity as that drew, it could hurt him in the job market if his football career is over so soon.

 

[Giant Squid]

Wow, what horrible news. It just goes to show that any career in sports is fleeting and you need something to fall back on.

 

[bamajag600]

Best wishes to him and hopefully he can fully recover.

But considering this is a possibility happening at the combine or at any of the "Senior" bowls, I wonder do most of these players have some sort of insurance policy in case something bad happens?

 

[BigEasyTider]

Does anyone know if DF was one of the players caught up in the grade scandle at FSU this year. I really hate to hear about his injury, and I hope he wasn't involved in the grade scandle because as much publicity as that drew, it could hurt him in the job market if his football career is over so soon.

No, he was not. He caught five balls in the Music City Bowl for 51 yards, so thankfully he wasn't a part of that.

...But considering this is a possibility happening at the combine or at any of the "Senior" bowls, I wonder do most of these players have some sort of insurance policy in case something bad happens?

The companies that are responsible for these events all have insurance policies that will cover the medical expenses arising from injuries that result to their players when they are partaking in said event. So, Fagg won't have to pay a dime in medical bills on all of this.

However, lost compensation that would have resulted if not for an injury is not covered by these insurance policies. The individual players themselves must have taken out an insurance policy on their own to be able to recover a specific amount if an injury ends their career.

From all I can tell, there is no definite answer yet on whether or not Fagg took out that form of insurance policy.

 

[Im_on_dsp]

From all I can tell, there is no definite answer yet on whether or not Fagg took out that form of insurance policy.

Probably not. Typically, those policies would be purchased by the player's agent (since most of these athletes have little or no money of their own) and the Agent's not going to shoulder that expense unless it's a very high profile draft pick like a Darren McFadden or such. If DF had a policy it would have had to be purchased by his family. That's sad.:frown:

 

[OrngAntipathist]

But considering this is a possibility happening at the combine or at any of the "Senior" bowls, I wonder do most of these players have some sort of insurance policy in case something bad happens?

Doubtful he had policies like Lienhart and his offensive lineman had their senior season. But at least the NFL Combine has insurance to help him get back to 100%. Hope they have Andrews or someone similar to help this young man out.

 

[foley_boy]

They're saying it's a possible torn ACL...I know that's a long road to recovery, but I wonder why they're saying it's "career-ending" do ya'll think it's because he was already considered a second day pick? I mean, Willis McGahee tore his ACL and the next year was playing in the NFL. I mean an ACL tear is usually all the way through so it's not like you can really have a "worse" tear than someone else. It's possible to partially tear it but that is rare. Anyways, I'm just curious what you guys think about that.

 

[gmart74]

I partially tore mine, needed no surgery but still took me 3 months to get over it.

I'm also a bit confused about this "worst injury ever seen." A torn ACL, while it sucks, has a very high success rate of repair. McGahee tore 3 ligaments with cartilage damage, which was why his was considered such a major thing. I realize a torn ACL impacts Fagg monetarily, but it just seems weird to call it a possible career ending injury when they aren't even sure if he even blew his ACL yet.

 

[foley_boy]

I partially tore mine, needed no surgery but still took me 3 months to get over it.

I'm also a bit confused about this "worst injury ever seen." A torn ACL, while it sucks, has a very high success rate of repair. McGahee tore 3 ligaments with cartilage damage, which was why his was considered such a major thing. I realize a torn ACL impacts Fagg monetarily, but it just seems weird to call it a possible career ending injury when they aren't even sure if he even blew his ACL yet.

That's what I'm saying...I wonder if there's more to it than those articles suggest, or are people just jumping to conclusions

 

[Alanbama27]

While I'm not a doctor (and no I didn't stay in a Holiday Inn Express) I would be SHOCKED for anyone today to consider a knee injury as career ending if it were damaged ligaments! All of the ligaments in the knee can be repaired and the player can go on to have a great and very long career! If it were a knee injury that could be career ending it would have had to be structural and by that I mean a break or something like that where the two joints meet...some type of fracture. Otherwise there is almost no way for it to have been called potentially career ending in my experience.

For the record I've had a torn miniscus and partially torn MCL and both were repaired in surgery in 1993 and I've been 100% fine since. As a matter of fact I played baseball in the men's senior league (over 30 was considered SENIOR...can you believe that...I was 31) after I rehabbed it and it was fine.