Medical reasons why Saints may have passed on RB Tyjae Spears

nakadish said
If he hadn't gone to a Louisiana school, everyone would be livid over the Saints taking a player with no ACL given the Saints history with injuries. And just because he's having success elsewhere doesn't mean he would have that here. Because with the current offense, he wouldn't. Truthfully Spears is better off where he's at.

The "if he hadn't gone to a Louisiana school" thing doesn't really hold water when everyone on here clamors for every LSU player in existence. And it's not like anyone would have lost sleep over it if 1) we didn't already need a solid backup RB, 2) the Saints didn't pick another RB while Spears was still on the board

Clearly the loss of an ACL (which magically wasn't reported or known by anyone until draft day) didn't effect him that badly as he recovered from that 2020 injury extremely well. Additionally, this whole breakdown from a Sports Physical Therapist kind of debunks the mental gymnastics that went into many fans justifying why it was a good thing that the Saints passed on him.