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Brady HendersonESPN
Seattle Seahawks operating again Rashaad Penny suffered a damaged fibula and injured the tibia in his left leg on Sunday and can omit the rest of the season, trainer Pete Carroll stated Monday.
Penny’s harm would require surgical operation.
“It’s going to be a haul for him. This is what they refer to as a tib/fib incident. He broke his fibula and cracked that, but it’s the high-ankle sprain element of it that makes it difficult. And there’s a particular surgery that they do to connect and tighten down those bones,” Carroll stated on Seattle Sports 710 AM on Monday.
“It’s going to take a number of months, so he’s going to miss the season. It’s really a heartbreaker for a kid that has really bounced back into the limelight of our program and for us and all, and for himself. He’s been through such a long haul that it’s really just a heartbreaking loss for him. He’d been doing great and everybody could see it and we’ve been so excited for him. … It’s a really clear surgery process and all that, but it just does take a long time.”
Penny, who broke out overdue closing season after an injury-filled begin to his occupation, went down on the finish of a lift within the 3rd quarter of the Seahawks’ 39-32 loss to the New Orleans Saints. He hobbled to the Seahawks’ bench with the aid of any individual on all sides of him, not able to place weight on his left leg. Before he used to be carted into the locker room, Penny used to be striking his head whilst being tended to through the crew physician and head athletic teacher.
Penny carried 8 instances for 54 yards Sunday earlier than his harm. After he went down, rookie second-round select Ken Walker broke loose for a 69-yard landing run that in brief gave Seattle a one-point lead within the fourth quarter.
Penny’s newest harm comes after his emergence as one of the NFL’s most efficient operating backs. He led the league with 671 speeding yards over the general 5 video games of closing season, which used to be 208 greater than somebody else in that span. After a quiet begin to 2022, he exploded for 151 yards and two touchdowns on 17 carries closing week in a efficiency that used to be reminiscent of his late-season surge.
Before that breakout, Penny’s occupation have been marred through a protracted checklist of accidents. The twenty seventh general select in 2018, he neglected 30 of a imaginable 69 video games (together with playoffs) as a result of of harm over his first 3 seasons. That incorporated a torn ACL in 2019 that sidelined him for a lot of 2020.
Penny has talked brazenly about how a lot his accidents have weighed on him, announcing lately that he returned to Seattle this offseason partially as a result of he felt he owed it to the Seahawks given always he had neglected. The Seahawks introduced Penny again on a one-year, $5.75 million deal that incorporated greater than $5 million in promises.
With Travis Homer on injured reserve (ribs) for no less than two extra video games and Penny now out, the Seahawks are right down to Walker and DeeJay Dallas at operating again, so they will need to make an addition there. And they will have to show to Walker to prepared the ground.