How Serious Injuries Affect Recruitment

[LionEagle]

I know of a young man who was receiving some, not a lot, of attention from some colleges this past offseason before his senior year. He worked hard in the weight room, got his weight up to where these colleges wanted it, and then boom. He has an injury in practice and then injurs it further during the first game and has to miss the rest of his senior season. How much does this injury affect his recruitment? How many schools are going to take a chance on a kid that missed his entire senior season?

[GreatLakes]

Depends on the severity of the injury, spots offered, type of program/school, level of talent etc...

Take Grayson Miller for example pretty serious ankle/foot ? injury last year, and missed his whole senior season. Though he was already verbally committed to Mich St, they still kept him on board and it payed off for Them last night

Damien Harris tweaked his MCL last year, and schools kept recruiting him for obvious reasons.

[littleluck55]

I would say if he hadn't verbally committed to a school that would still honor the verbal, he will need to walk on to a school and earn a scholarship.

[LionEagle]

He suffered an avulsion fracture in his pelvis. When his hamstring pulled it pulled a piece of bone off with it and it is requiring surgery.

[thunder1]

Ace Wales Committed to Louisville, after he tore his ACL they took his scholarship. He ended up signing with WKU. So I think it just depends on the coach recruiting them.