During the regular season, details on player injuries are now reported on a seemingly minute-to-minute schedule. Information is less readily available through March. But as teams get closer to free agency, the draft, and post-draft mini-camps, new details emerge.
Players must make final decisions on surgical interventions to give themselves enough time to finish rehab before the end of training camp. Coaches and players are more readily available for questions at the scouting combine, the draft, and mini-camps. And the decisions front offices and coaching staffs make in free agency and the draft sometimes hint at where teams believe their injured veterans may be in their recovery.
Over the next few weeks, I'll be reviewing player injuries by position. I'll examine critical or confusing situations in depth. Expectations on all relevant injuries will be included in a table at the end of each article.
I'll keep each feature up-to-date through OTAs and minicamps, then combine all positions into one feature as training camps and the regular season approaches.
Quarterback Update
Running Back Update
Wide Receiver Update
Tight End Update
Wide receiver update
dOUG bALDWIN | cORE ABDOMINAL MUSCLE SURGERY / ARTHROSCOPIC KNEE SURGERY | liKELY TO RETIRE
While not official -- there are salary cap and league rules in play -- Baldwin is expected to retire. The Seahawks released him after a slow trickle of reports in late April prepared their fan base for the inevitable.
Should Baldwin change his mind, I'll update with thoughts on his future expectations.
| Wide Receivers | ||||||
| Player | Team | Injury | Date | Player/Team Says | FBGs Expects | Notes |
| DeAndre Hopkins | Hou | Right AC sprain | Early January 2019 | Ready for training camp | Ready for training camp | |
| Will Fuller V | Hou | Right ACL reconstruction | Late October 2018 | Did not participate in OTAs | Questionable for training camp | |
| A.J. Green | Cin | Right plantar plate repair | Early December 2018 | Did not participate in OTAs | Probable for training camp | |
| John Ross | Cin | Tightness (unspecified) | Mid-May 2019 | Did not participate in OTAs | Probable for training camp | |
| Cooper Kupp | LAR | Left ACL reconstruction | Mid-November 2018 | Did not participate in OTAs | Probable for training camp | |
| Doug Baldwin | FA | Core abdominal muscle repair / Arthroscopic knee surgery | April 2019 / February 2019 | Released by Seattle | Expected to retire | |
| T.Y. Hilton | Ind | High ankle sprain | Recurrent 2018 | Participated in OTAs | Ready for training camp | |
| Deon Cain | Ind | ACL reconstruction | Early August 2018 | Did not participate in OTAs | Questionable for training camp | |
| Jarvis Landry | Cle | Undisclosed | May 2019 | Did not participate in OTAs | Probable for training camp | |
| Marvin Jones Jr | Det | Right knee bone contusion | Mid-November 2018 | Did not participate in OTAs | Probable for training camp | |
| Kenny Golladay | Det | Chest injury | Late December 2018 | Did not participate in OTAs | Probable for training camp | |
| Anthony Miller | Chi | Left shoulder labrum repair | Mid-January 2019 | Limited in OTAs | Probable for training camp | |
| Emmanuel Sanders | Den | Left Achilles tendon repair | Early December 2018 | Did not participate in OTAs | Questionable for training camp | |
| Christian Kirk | Ari | Left fifth metatarsal fixation | Early December 2018 | Partial participation in OTAs | Probable for training camp | |
| Marquise Brown | Bal | Left Lisfranc joint reconstruction | Early January 2019 | Did not participate in OTAs | Questionable for training camp | Ravens expect in camp |
| Miles Boykin | Bal | Hamstring strain | May 2019 | Limited in OTAs | Probable for training camp | |
| Paul Richardson Jr | Was | Right AC joint reconstruction | Early November 2018 | Did not participate in OTAs | Probable for training camp | |
| Demaryius Thomas | NE | Left Achilles repair | Late December 2018 | Cleared to run | Likely PUP to start camp | |
| Marqise Lee | Jac | Left ACL reconstruction / PCL repair | Late August 2018 | Did not participate in OTAs | Likely PUP to start camp | May return late in camp |
| Albert Wilson | Mia | Right hip injury | Late October 2018 | Did not participate in OTAs | Probable for training camp | |
| Jakeem Grant | Mia | Achilles surgery | Late November 2018 | Probable for training camp | Probable for training camp | |
| Cole Beasley | Buf | Core abdominal muscle repair | April 2019 | Did not participate in OTAs | Questionable for training camp | |
| Breshad Perriman | TB | Shoulder injury | May 2019 | Did not participate in OTAs | Probable for training camp | |
| Allen Hurns | Dal | Left ankle dislocation / fibula fracture | Early January 2019 | Did not participate in OTAs | Likely PUP to start camp | |
| Mack Hollins | Phi | Core abdominal muscle repair | Early September 2018 | Did not participate in OTAs | Questionable for training camp | |
| Cameron Meredith | NO | Arthroscopic knee surgery | Early November 2018 | Did not participate in OTAs | Questionable for training camp | |
Check back for more injury analysis throughout training camp and follow on Twitter @JeneBramel for breaking injury news, commentary, and analysis of injury news around the NFL
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