Perspective: When it’s the Redskins and Reuben Foster, even a freak injury makes you wonder
By Barry Svrluga Barry Svrluga Sports columnist with beat writing experience on baseball, golf, the NFL, college basketball and college football Email Bio Follow Sports columnist May 20 at 5:55 PM When Reuben Foster writhed on the ground, then punched it with his left fist, the easy and inevitable thought was this: karma. Karma left Foster there furious and frustrated, and it looks as if he’s lost for the season with a torn left ACL.
There are two elements to all this. First, there’s what Washington wanted and expected out of Foster, a first-round talent with a second-rate past. And then there’s a broader question: Why is this football team constantly breaking down? Doesn’t matter the position on the field or the importance to the depth chart. These guys crumble — and invent new ways to do so.
“I don’t know how to process it, really,” Coach Jay Gruden said. “We’ve had some bad luck over here for the last couple years, but this one here takes the cake because this was a noncontact drill and there was really no contact involved in it. He just landed funny.” “Obviously, he’s been through a lot as a young football player off the field and on the field,” Gruden said.
At 11:55 a.m. Monday, Reuben Foster was hoisted onto a cart, his left leg immobilized, and sped up the hill from the practice field into the team’s headquarters. Allen ran after the cart. They can hope for the best. It felt like the worst.
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