Loading ...After slipping in practice on Sunday, New York Giants cornerback Terrell Thomas was sent to Hospital for Special Surgery on Monday for an MRI on his knee. Following hours of speculation, the team revealed that Thomas did suffer an injury to his right knee involving the ACL, but did not say that the ACL was torn.
The team will now schedule Thomas for exploratory arthroscopic surgery to determine the extent of the injury. Additionally, Thomas says he will consult with Dr. Arthur Ting, who handled the veteran's previous two ACL tears, including the one he suffered while attending USC.
"Terrell re-injured his ACL. At this point he will most likely undergo an arthroscopic procedure to determine the extent of the injury to the ACL. However, no decision has been made at this point. Terrell is going to consult with Dr. (Arthur) Ting, who performed an allograft reconstruction of the ACL in September," Giants trainer Ronnie Barnes said.
Thomas missed the entire 2011-2012 season after tearing his ACL in a preseason game against the Chicago Bears last August, but was medically cleared to participate in training camp with "no limitations."
On Saturday, Thomas handed out over 2,000 "T2" t-shirts to the fans in attendance as a thank you for their continued support.
No player in the history of organized football has ever returned after tearing the same ACL three times, so in the event that's what Thomas has done, his career is in serious jeopardy. However, Carolina Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis is currently attempting it and has thus far had no set-backs.
Re-tearing ACL's has plagued the Giants in recent years with Domenik Hixon, Clint Sintim and Brian Witherspoon all facing consecutive injuries. Additionally, former linebacker Jonathan Goff, now with the Washington Redskins, recently re-tore his ACL and will miss his second consecutive season.
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So in less than 12 months Giants players will have received “voluntary” surgery and “exploratory” surgery.
Really?!
I feel awful for this kid.
Just awful. Here’s a good character guy who will be out of football … and Dez Bryant will still be making millions and b-tch slapping his Mom. Life isn’t fair.
Now you can panic, Jim. I just refused to buy into speculation, and will continue to as we move forward. Those reports are wrong 90% of the time and my history with ACL and knee injuries told me it wasn’t severe. I was wrong … though it doesn’t mean it’s fully torn.
Poor f*cking guy. Krow said it best–there’s no justice in the sports world.
Apparently Goff retore his ACL again as well.
Obviously, this is just a terrible, terrible blow for the kid. And on a personal level, you just can’t help but feel devastated by this news.
But from the cold, utterly pragmatic standpoint of a fan who only wants to see his favorite team put its best players on the field, I can honestly say I’m not at all dismayed by this development.
Look, we’ve all watched too many players play like a shell of their former selves in their first year back after shredding an ACL/MCL. I was certainly not expecting Thomas to buck that trend. The speculation that he would somehow be able to play a major role this year and was the frontrunner for the #2 CB job was waaaaaay premature. I figured that even a raw Prince would likely prove a much better option than a player just coming back from his second tear of the same ligament.
I’m not trying to be a di*k. Nor do I wish to diminish the scope of this calamity for Terrell Thomas, the human being. It’s just that I don’t really see the need to panic over the loss of a player who, realistically, was probably not going to be even an average player this year.
If he truly hurt himself slipping, then he had no chance when making actual football contact, I’d suspect. I feel awful for the guy.
+1 on a ll points
JR – protected the team nicely here. I believe he only has gauranteed money this year.
If TT gets IR’d, this gives real life to J Jackson.
From the news we heard so far couldn’t this be a sprained knee? It seems that nothing has been confirmed about a tear. I understand that it looks bad but I think we are assuming the worse.
Tough break for T2 he is a good cornerback hopefully it isnt retorn and can still play at some point this year.
id much rather prince start though it was only a matter of time before he took the job from T2 thomas was a good playmaker but people seem to forget he got beat ALOTT in 2010 he was by no means a shutdown corner that prince has the potential to be
And soooo it begins! every year its the same thing with injuries…. heres to fearing the worst but hoping for the best.
i hear jernnigan is doing his thing at camp so far… but then again so is barden.
how is a team that has won 2 sb’s in the last 5 yrs still not given its due? we arent even picked to be in the playoffs but the Great Eagles are… what the heck did they do to better themselves?
I also hear greg jones is looking good
Norm – you have an excellent point about TT. I felt the same way but then with TT appearing healthy and the coaches talking him up I got sucked in. It possibly that for our 2012 success it was more important that Hosley injury just turned out to me minor. I think we all want to avoid Rolle playing nickel again so Tryon and Hosley are key players because if TT is injured then they will likely man nickel. Also Coe would become more important because he might next CB up behind Cweb and Prince.
It’s good to hear that Prince is looking like the player we expected when we drafted him.