Darnell Savage Hamstring

[RingoCStarrQB]

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Green Bay Packers safety Darnell Savage suffered a hamstring injury during the team’s Family Night Scrimmage at Lambeau Field on Friday night.

Savage was injured during a one-on-one drill. He told Bill Huber of SI.com that he felt some tightness in the hamstring while running and decided to shut it down for the night.

“I don’t think it’s a concern,” Savage said.

Coach Matt LaFleur didn’t seem particularly concerned either, although he did say he’s unhappy with the conditioning level of his team.

Savage is a starter next to Adrian Amos at safety, where the Packers lack depth and cannot afford a long-term injury. Vernon Scott replaced Savage on Friday night.

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Green Bay Packers safety Darnell Savage suffered a hamstring injury during the team’s Family Night Scrimmage at Lambeau Field on Friday night.

Savage was injured during a one-on-one drill. He told Bill Huber of SI.com that he felt some tightness in the hamstring while running and decided to shut it down for the night.

“I don’t think it’s a concern,” Savage said.

Coach Matt LaFleur didn’t seem particularly concerned either, although he did say he’s unhappy with the conditioning level of his team.

Savage is a starter next to Adrian Amos at safety, where the Packers lack depth and cannot afford a long-term injury. Vernon Scott replaced Savage on Friday night.

thanks for the up date Ringo, it's hard to tell just how well some players do on a family night practice, so how well Vernon Scott did replacing Savage is hard to gauge, glad to hear the ham pull for Savage sounds minor, wouldn't want to lose him, Scott though looked pretty good in the past.

[Drj820]

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Green Bay Packers safety Darnell Savage suffered a hamstring injury during the team’s Family Night Scrimmage at Lambeau Field on Friday night.

Savage was injured during a one-on-one drill. He told Bill Huber of SI.com that he felt some tightness in the hamstring while running and decided to shut it down for the night.

“I don’t think it’s a concern,” Savage said.

Coach Matt LaFleur didn’t seem particularly concerned either, although he did say he’s unhappy with the conditioning level of his team.

Savage is a starter next to Adrian Amos at safety, where the Packers lack depth and cannot afford a long-term injury. Vernon Scott replaced Savage on Friday night.

Great insider information. Thank you for this report Ringo. Sounds like the boys came in fat. Plenty of time to get right tho.

[texas]

I heard that there was some study done that showed that injuries are related to training intensity, which sort of sounds obvious. But it speculated that the reason so many players tear ACLs in the first couple weeks is because coaches think that all the players are out of shape, so they do a bunch of conditioning at the beginning of the season, which leads to the injuries.

[Drj820]

I heard that there was some study done that showed that injuries are related to training intensity, which sort of sounds obvious. But it speculated that the reason so many players tear ACLs in the first couple weeks is because coaches think that all the players are out of shape, so they do a bunch of conditioning at the beginning of the season, which leads to the injuries.

Does conditioning lead to acl tears tho? Conditioning is usually jogging, running, biking...ya know...straight line stuff.

I think it happens more when you are hitting the field and playing the game and cutting, sudden movements, twitching etc after a period of inactivity.

I think it’s more no action to live action that causes problems early, not no action to common conditioning.

[texas]

I heard that there was some study done that showed that injuries are related to training intensity, which sort of sounds obvious. But it speculated that the reason so many players tear ACLs in the first couple weeks is because coaches think that all the players are out of shape, so they do a bunch of conditioning at the beginning of the season, which leads to the injuries.

Does conditioning lead to acl tears tho? Conditioning is usually jogging, running, biking...ya know...straight line stuff.

I think it happens more when you are hitting the field and playing the game and cutting, sudden movements, twitching etc after a period of inactivity.

I think it’s more no action to live action that causes problems early, not no action to common conditioning.

I could buy it. Because it's not just run of the mill 10-min warmup conditioning that is causing it (according to this), it's rather more intense conditioning that takes up the majority of the practice time.

I think anytime you repeatedly wear on a muscle or muscle system, it's going to be a bit weaker (until it recovers, at which point it should come back stronger). But until it recovers, I think it makes sense that it will be more susceptible. And if the original physical trauma is greater than normal (as would presumably be the case if the coaches do the toughest conditioning right at the start), it makes sense to me that it would cause the targets of the conditioning to be in a weakened state around the time of the abnormally-intense conditioning.

[wallyuwl]

ACL tears happen way more in a fatigued state. But they usually happen during cutting or landing (you don't tear an ACL running in a straight line). Doing too much work that has a lot if cutting and jumping late in practice early in training camp makes ACL tears more likely. In the offseason the majority of training is still in the sagittal plane (forward/backward direction), the body has to adapt.