Alabama running back Bo Scarbrough tore his ACL during a scrimmage Friday, underwent surgery Monday and started rehab Wednesday.
It’s a remarkable sequence that would have been impossible just one decade ago.
Will we eventually get good enough at ACL surgeries that those who tear the most important knee ligament in spring practice can feel good about being able to start the season in the fall?
We’re not to that point yet medically, but Scarbrough’s quick progress is impressive nonetheless.
Check out video of the freshman running back rehabbing his knee.
Two day out of surgery and already can do a straight leg lift! It's a blessing to be able to come back and work hard! pic.twitter.com/8NQ31ZDsjR
— Bo Scarbrough (@starbo06) April 8, 2015
Alabama’s backfield is thin without Scarbrough. Altee Tenpenny elected to transfer after last season, and Tyren Jones, already suspended indefinitely, got kicked off the team after an arrest for marijuana possession last week. T.J. Yeldon and fullback Jalston Fowler are headed to the NFL draft.
Derrick Henry, Kenyan Drake and true freshman DeSherrius Flowers are practicing at running back right now, and five-star signee Damien Harris will join the team this summer. Still, it’s a major bummer for Alabama coaches, players and fans to watch Scarbrough, an exciting young talent, go through this injury.
An itinerant journalist, Christopher has moved between states 11 times in seven years. Formally an injury-prone Division I 800-meter specialist, he now wanders the Rockies in search of high peaks.
