Eric Wood has a fractured tibia and fibula

According to Chris Brown from BuffaloBills.com:

"Bills OL Eric Wood has a fractured tibia and fibula and is staying in Jacksonville tonight.

Wood is having surgery to re-set the bones. He’s expected back in Buffalo on Monday.

With six weeks left in the season its likely that Wood’s injury is season ending. We’ll get the official update Monday at Perry Fewell’s wrap up press conference."

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Well there were calls of Theismanesque career ending injury, so this is good news… kinda.

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by CanadianBillsFan on Nov 22, 2009 7:31 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

very bad news… hate to see young guys hurt like this in early in their career. Could set him back big time, when he needs his first offseason in the NFL s bad as any one

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by killascript on Nov 22, 2009 8:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Will he ever be the same?

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by billsoferie on Nov 22, 2009 8:16 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

It’s not his knee or ankle so I have hope he will be fine. Nick Hennessey and Xavier Omon anyone? Wood to IR, Harris back to PS. I’m callin it now.

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by MattRichWarren on Nov 22, 2009 8:52 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I thought Omon signed with Seattle?

by krytime on Nov 22, 2009 10:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yup

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by twoeightnine on Nov 22, 2009 10:04 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Their practice squad

If the Bills really want him they can re-sign him to their active roster….I suppose

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by Kurupt on Nov 23, 2009 12:24 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Pass

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by CanadianBillsFan on Nov 23, 2009 11:34 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I’d rather we re-sign Rhodes as our third RB then go after Omon again.

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by CanadianBillsFan on Nov 23, 2009 11:35 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I Actually think this is the best injury that could have happened based on what I saw. I have no doubt he will be fine next year. It is a real shame though… Ever game provides an opportunity to learn something. Oh well… I guess he will have lots of time for film study.

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by Jason from OH-IO on Nov 22, 2009 9:29 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Derp

With six weeks left in the season its likely that Wood’s injury is season ending.

Understatement of the day.

There could be more to it than just broken bones. We have to hope that there isn’t significant nerve damage because that looked like very significant fracture.

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by Kurupt on Nov 22, 2009 9:39 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/CBS-wouldn-t-replay-this-gruesome-leg-injury?urn=nfl,204203

You are definitely right. Warning guys: The replay turned my stomach.

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by MattRichWarren on Nov 23, 2009 10:27 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Link’s not working anymore.

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by CanadianBillsFan on Nov 23, 2009 11:36 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Try this

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by MattRichWarren on Nov 23, 2009 11:42 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It could be pretty bad still especially if there were multiple breaks?

I would imagine that he will have a lot of pins and plates put in to keep the bones in place and to help promote healing. My wife did her ankle with 3 breaks… 9 screws and a plate later it took about a year for her to heal 100%. With the best of training and working out, I hope that Eric would be ready by the start of training camp next summer…

by dabillsr1 on Nov 22, 2009 10:26 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Here's to hope

I’m a Jags fan, but I felt I should show my support for Wood. I love OL players and he was one of the players I had looked into when I wanted to research picks for the Jags. I had hoped he’d fall to the second and we could steal him.

I do hope that this was a clean break. It’ll help the healing and it won’t hurt his play as much, though injuries like this often set players back a year or two. I do hope he will be alright to play next season for you guys.

by alwaysforgiven821 on Nov 22, 2009 10:46 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

Wood is going to be the stud of the interior line for 10 years...

… and I still hope that.
Get well bro. That was brutal and you took that like a man.
Nasty.
I had my ankle exploded in High School when my stupid offensive tackle got bull rushed (because he didn’t know the play) and rolled up on my leg behind me. That was severe pain.
I cannot imagine what Eric felt. My prayers are with you and your family.

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by SERGEANT MAJOR THOR on Nov 22, 2009 10:56 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Through all the losses and bad times, I have to say seeing Wood go down like that was the worst part of the season for me so far.

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by UZ on Nov 22, 2009 11:48 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

agreed......I can't believe all the injuries

I think Polian must have put a curse on the Bills when he left. Anyone know where we can get a live Buffalo to sacrifice on the 50 yards line? Or, maybe we should use a Dolphin ??? Preferably, Nick Buoniconti :-)

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by Joe P. on Nov 23, 2009 12:04 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

agreed..

He was one of the only good constants in our ever-shifting mess of an OL.

by hawaiianbuffalonian on Nov 23, 2009 12:33 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I think a broken bone is a better long term prognosis than an ACL if there's no

damage to the ligaments.

by live6453 on Nov 23, 2009 12:29 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I agree with that. But as breaks go this one is pretty bad.

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by MattRichWarren on Nov 23, 2009 10:28 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Agreed, but if it’s only broken bones he should be at 100% before next year’s draft. I’m just hoping that this doesn’t affect his confidence as a player and doesn’t set him back too much.

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by CanadianBillsFan on Nov 23, 2009 11:38 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

What are the feeding these players?

Thje injuries since Jauron got here are unreal.

Are they feeding these guys a steady diet of flouride, gmo food, cloned meat and diet pepsi and coke?

This is unreal.

There's not a wide receiver who is fast enough, that J.P. Losman can't overthrow him on a fly pattern.

by The Buffalo Kid on Nov 23, 2009 12:33 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Did you see that hit? A herd of cows doesn’t possess enough calcium to prevent a broken leg there.

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by MattRichWarren on Nov 23, 2009 10:28 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Just watched the clip on youtube. that had to hurt.

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by sireric on Nov 23, 2009 11:04 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

worst thing that happened to the club all year

Never put salt in your eyes

by J2 on Nov 23, 2009 11:34 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I just watched it for the first time on Youtube.

OMFG that had to hurt! Turned my stomach. Definatly the lowest point in the season.

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by CanadianBillsFan on Nov 23, 2009 11:41 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

It’s not surprising CBS didn’t show it again.

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by MattRichWarren on Nov 23, 2009 11:42 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Not at all. No one wants to have to watch that twice.

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by CanadianBillsFan on Nov 23, 2009 11:43 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

And yet they replayed McGahee’s college injury over and over and over and over again every single game during his first season. It got so that as soon as they made the segue, I had flipped the channel for about 45 seconds.

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by WhyBillsWhy on Nov 23, 2009 1:05 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I had a physiotherapy appointment this morning, and just for fun, I asked him what his pronosis on Wood would be based on it being a “fractured tibia and fibula”. He said it could be anything from 100% by training camp 2010 or career-ending, depending on the type of fractures and where in the bone they were located. It is all just speculation at this point until we hear more details on what sort of fractures these were. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.

by Scott_P on Nov 23, 2009 12:28 PM EST reply actions 0 recs