Taysom's injury requires surgery, would've been Trevor at QB had Saints made playoffs

oof. as much as making the playoffs would’ve been fun it’s nice to just get into this offseason and get a reset and let everyone heal and just relax after a pretty draining season

just an emotional and physical roller coaster of the hurricane, injuries, Covid, etc.

Future is bright for this team, let the QB fun begin

As much as it sucks to admit.. the Rams losing is really a blessing in disguise.

Would of loved for the Saints to get in and potentially ruin some other team’s hopes but draft positioning is more important, especially with that news.

Would have loved to have a shot at ending the Rams season. But this Saints team had no shot to do any real damage in the playoffs with this current group on offense. Therefore I'm not too concerned about not making the playoffs. I just hope we can retain some key free agents and get some weapons at TE and WR, maybe even a good QB.

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Thought his pf foot was his right one before

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Plus it's two totally different injuries regardless.

It will be the only time I will ever say that making the playoffs wasn’t all that bad. Our offense simply wouldn’t have been able to do enough. Looking forward to next years reset.

The Lord works in mysterious ways.

If I'm not mistaken, Taysom also had a Lisfranc injury at BYU.

Yes he did. The current Lisfranc injury is to his left foot. The Lisfranc at BYU occurred in his right foot. Being that he had the injury before, explains the look of worry he had coming off the field & going into the lockeroom.

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Painful uncertainty: How Lisfranc injuries have become one of most feared yet least understood maladies in football

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As BYU QB Taysom Hill planted his right foot, something—his cleat, Nebraska’s turf, the angle, a twitch—went wrong. Pop.

The choreography of Taysom Hill's undoing looks no different than the thousands of times he's run this play before. There's 230 pounds of muscly mass, ball in hand, dropping back to pass. There's a decision: to run instead. And then there's acceleration, the quarterback's considerable frame lunging forward. On the first step, his right foot plants. But something—Hill's cleat, Nebraska's turf, the angle, a twitch—goes wrong. It's impossible to pinpoint. What's different is the sound.

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To Hill, the sound echoed louder than the roar of the crowd of nearly 90,000 in Lincoln last September. "It was like a rubber band snapped, and I felt this burning sensation in my foot," the BYU quarterback says nearly nine months later. He still plowed 21 yards into the Cornhuskers' end zone, tying the game at 14 in the second quarter, but he went no farther than he had to, falling to his knees just over the goal line. The pain in Hill's right foot had seared more with each step, and he limped to the sideline. By then, his foot felt as if it were on fire.

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Lisfranc injuries are named for Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin, one of Napoleon's surgeons who first described them in 1815. Soldiers sustained the injuries when they fell from their horses and one foot remained stuck in its stirrup, and they often resulted in amputation. Two hundred years later, medical advances have improved that outcome, but Lisfrancs remain among football's most devastating injuries.

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Anderson and the rest of the Foot and Ankle Committee have been studying Lisfrancs in-depth since 2012, and the NFL funds their research with grant money. Dr. Kirk McCullough, a member of the committee, discussed its findings at the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society conference in 2015. According to his presentation, of the 255 total Lisfranc injuries documented in ISS, 55 (22%) required surgery. Surgery rates nearly doubled from the 2000–05 period to the 2006–14 period, from an average of 2.4 per year to 4.6. (Surgery is necessary when bones shift and involves inserting hardware to stabilize the midfoot. Ligaments heal independently once the bones are aligned.) The study also observed 40 of Anderson's surgical patients at a year or more after the operation. Among the 34 NFL players, 79% had returned to game play by an average of 314 days (about 10 months) post-surgery. All six of the college players observed returned to game play, by an average of 256 days (8.5 months) post-op.

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After that, the uncertainty that is a hallmark of Lisfranc injuries set in. Think of it this way: When a player tears a ligament in his knee, his rehab calendar is specific, broken down into WEEKS with a target return date set soon after surgery. But with Lisfrancs, players are given an initial recovery window of 6–12 MONTHS, and their rehab schedules are divided into months-long, inexact chunks.

For Hill, that timetable could have meant a return to full activity by spring football—or just in time for BYU's opener. The gap between those dates seemed a lifetime, but as spring approached, Hill began to understand patience. With past injuries—he's had seasons ended by a knee injury and a broken ankle—he'd felt recovered after four or five months. But at the start of spring ball, he was severely limited, and even in late May, eight months out, he's blunt: "I still don't feel like I have a normal foot."

"You're going to go seven, eight months, and you're still hurting," Lewis says. "You're like, screw it. Nine, 10 months, you're still hurting. (You're thinking), there's no way it can be this long. It is that long."

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Taysom Hill's Long Road Back from Lisfranc Injury

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would've been Trevor at QB had Saints made playoffs

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Frankly, I thought that would have given us the best chance anyway.

Missing the playoffs does not hurt as bad anymore. Trevor is arse.