2010 NFL Draft: "Bombshell Brewing" Regarding Sergio Kindle; Bengals Should Stay Away?

by Josh Kirkendall on Apr 23, 2010 2:01 PM EDT in NFL Draft

We posted out earlier this morning that the Bengals could be in a position to draft Sergio Kindle in the second round if Texas linebacker falls that far. However, apparently there's a good explaination why Kindle fell out of the first round. According to Boston Herald'd rap sheet (by way of PFT), Kindle has major medical issues that he's dealing with.

Allow me to point you to an article written by respected Longhorns beat reporter Chip Brown of the UT Rivals.com site. It reports on what he terms “a potential bombshell brewing” regarding the knee injury Kindle played with in 2009.

“There are a handful of teams who have graded Kindle as a ’serious’ medical risk because of his knee, which one team said looks like it could require Kindle to have microfracture surgery,” Brown wrote in the article.

Yikes.

“Microfracture is a surgery to create cartilage in the knee when it becomes a bone-on-bone situation,” he continued. “It’s a surgery athletes tend to have near the end of their careers. Not at the beginning. According to some teams, Kindle’s medical exams showed a series of trauma on the knee that could limit his career.”

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there are always more and more reasons to trust GMs

Not that they’re always right, but they know this stuff and we dont

by jsl413 on Apr 23, 2010 2:04 PM EDT reply actions

What about Mount Cody?

Check this out:

http://www.nfl.com/draft/story?id=09000d5d817b9656&template=with-video-with-comments&confirm=true

3 yards and a pile of dust

by Hudepohl Dey on Apr 23, 2010 2:34 PM EDT reply actions

I'm in for Mt. Cody

Sad for Sergio Kindle if the injury is as career-threatening or ending as is postulated. I wonder how Texas’ coaching/medical staff could have let it reach that point but I guess it isn’t surprising given the business of college football these days. Good luck to the kid.

by IgnatiusJReilly on Apr 23, 2010 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions

wow

by Primal on Apr 23, 2010 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions

+1

by Primal on Apr 23, 2010 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions

I had him high on the 2nd round...

think on that info you may pass as far as a 2nd rounder

by Primal on Apr 23, 2010 3:07 PM EDT up reply actions

I like..

Cody,he was a force at DT for bama

by Primal on Apr 23, 2010 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions

want to hear something funny

We are looking at Brian Price DT/UCLA, supposedly here is our big board from what I have heard from 2 semi reliable sources since my reliable sources can not reply to me yet.

1.) Brian Price DT/UCLA
2.) Jon Asamoah G/Illinois
3.) Brandon Spikes LB/Florida

Now, this is our potential top 3 if Nate Allen is gone by this pick, I was also told that we might jump the gun and select the CB from IUP.

uuuh yeah I write for the Cincinnati Enquirer. Thanks?

by "Mr. NC-17" on Apr 23, 2010 3:11 PM EDT up reply actions