Rough start for Joe McKnight
Posted by Michael David Smith on April 30, 010 11:4 AM ET

A player's performance on the first morning of his first NFL minicamp probably isn't a very good predictor of what kind of career he's going to have. Which is good news for Jets rookie running back Joe McKnight.

According to tweets from various reporters on the scene, McKnight's morning included missing a pair of catchable balls, dropping a pass while falling awkwardly and needing trainers to work on both calves because of cramps.

And, to top it all off, McKnight threw up on the field.

As we noted in today's one-liners, McKnight has been encouraged to follow veteran running backs LaDainian Tomlinson and Shonn Greene around "until they shoo you away." By puking on the field, McKnight may have found a way to make Tomlinson and Greene shoo him away quickly.

Remember when the Lions drafted Ernie Sims, he was a concusion machine,and everyone was convinced that he would not hold up in the NFL. They got him a new mouth guard, new style helmet, and I don't believe he had ANY concusions in his time here. I'm sure they will take the same approach with Best, and hopefully it turns out the same way.

This keeps coming up. I don't know about anybody else but my health concerns with Best wasn't just the one big hit and concussion. It was that he had 2 concussions, a foot surgery and an elbow surgery in the span of two years. I'm still not saying that he's going to be a bust. I just think that it is kind of ridiculous that people were writing off the fact that he had some injuries.

And your point is?

He is a RB. Very few RB's can do their job and not get nagging injuries and the occasional Concussion. Hopefully, Best got his quota of concussions in in college. It just happens. RB's get beaten to a pulp. That's why their careers are so much shorter than any other position. And probably why the NFL has become a passing league.

Billy he only had one freak concussion, not two. He had a few normal college RB injuries, nothing to worry about, ons no one would mention had he not been held out his last season due to a pure freak accident resulting in a concussion. Had that NOT happened, no one would even be concerned with his injury history at all.

Best missed practice Tuesday and Wednesday with a slight concussion sustained in the team's 23-21 win at Arizona State last Saturday, but participated in full during Thursday's workout. The concussion wasn't diagnosed right away.

Tedford said the fact Best has sustained two concussions in a week's span would be taken seriously.

Best missed practice Tuesday and Wednesday with a slight concussion sustained in the team's 23-21 win at Arizona State last Saturday, but participated in full during Thursday's workout. The concussion wasn't diagnosed right away.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4633427



He had a concussion the week before he had the ugly one vs Oregon St. It was a minor concussion by all accounts but still two within the span of a week.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4633427



He had a concussion the week before he had the ugly one vs Oregon St. It was a minor concussion by all accounts but still two within the span of a week.