Obviously not. But Guido is right on the money with the recovery time. So, I too don't understand your sarcastic response to the player not practicing when the injury requires 4-6 week to heal.

This is exactly what happened the last time to MT13. Injured the ankle, kept out but not on IR. Comes back in a desperate attempt to help Brees in a playoff game before being fully healed. Reinjured the ankle losing another entire season to rehab/surgery.

The player should not practice nor play until that toe is 100%. If he reinjures it now, he will be lost for the entire remaining season. However, if he comes back next week with the toe 100%, he may be able to play in the remaining 9 games at a high level.

The problem here isn't that the player is injured. The problem is that the fans think that MT13 has quit on the team and is faking the injury not to play. This is a feeling with absolutely no evidence to back it up. "He's not on the field. He must not want to play for the Saints. We should trade him." It's a false narrative. A exact same narrative that folks used for MI22 early in his career, and for exactly the same injury BTW.

Why is it that when a player is highly/over paid for, either in draft picks (Ingram, Davenport), or money (MT13, AK41) that all of a sudden they are supposed to be robots that never get injured? The draft status, nor the money, has changed anything about them as a person, or their injury history/probability/recovery. And it has to be this (money or draft status) because for example no one has said in the last 5 weeks "JW2 isn't practicing? Surprised." or "Landry is out another week. Surprised."

Injured players cannot practice. They cannot play. It doesn't matter their draft status or their bank. I just wish folks would stop whining about it.

SFIAH