Ingram has surgery....
 

Mark Ingram underwent arthroscopic knee surgery Thursday and will be sidelined for the next six weeks.

It's Ingram's third known surgery since August of 2010 and second on the knee, which was also "scoped" just prior to his final college season. The recovery timeline given suggests this is another routine scope, although it's a growing concern for a player multiple teams reportedly removed from their boards leading up to the 2011 draft due to knee worries. Ingram's other surgery was an operation to repair a turf-toe injury in January. Ingram will enter the 2012 season with medical red flags in addition to preexisting workload concerns.

Source: Adam Schefter on Twitter

Ok now I'm starting to get real worried about this guy.

More bad news. What a surprise. At least, until the injuries start piling up, we have depth at this position.

Well son of a...

And the hits just keep on coming

I'm not sweating it just yet; let's see how he handles this season

Colston has 3 or 4 of these a month.

His "injury" status has been suspect since the toe.

Not a good sign. 1 year in the league, two surgeries? Ugh. Fingers crossed this is just some sort of routine deal.

This is why you never overpay for a RB; they're a dime a dozen. I didn't see anything from Ingram last year that I haven't seen from Chris Ivory.

Maybe we can trade him for Javid Best. (JK)

Is Ingram Turning Into Another Fragile Bust?
 

Mark Ingram underwent arthroscopic knee surgery Thursday and will be sidelined for the next six weeks.
It's Ingram's third known surgery since August of 2010 and second on the knee, which was also "scoped" just prior to his final college season. The recovery timeline given suggests this is another routine scope, although it's a growing concern for a player multiple teams reportedly removed from their boards leading up to the 2011 draft due to knee worries. Ingram's other surgery was an operation to repair a turf-toe injury in January. Ingram will enter the 2012 season with medical red flags in addition to preexisting workload concerns.

Source: Mark Ingram - New Orleans Saints - 2012 Player Profile - Rotoworld.com

:rolleyes:

He had Knee problems in College, didn't he. He'll be alright.

Hell, I've even had them. Scopes are very minor and can consist of anything from cleaning out loose objects and bone spurs to trimming up frayed or torn miniscus. Recovery from all of these are 100%. While they are technically surgery, they are a far cry from anything serious.

They say 6 weeks,but thats just from now on,so he should be ready by the season start . Its an estimated recovery time,alot can go wrong,especially if its the second surgery for the same thing.

In that case, maybe Ingram should get a hyperbaric chamber of his own to cut down on the recovery time, just like Colston does.

Seems like this was just a scheduled maintenance scope, so I'm not overly worried about it, but if he doesn't have a healthy season this year, I might start to seriously worry about his longevity in the league.

Just some scoping.

I am assuming by the title of your post you are referring to Reggie Bush.

Reggie had his share of injuries while he was here, but he was, in no way, shape or form a bust!

A lot of the times he pissed me off to the heights of pisstivity when he would run, but I would rather him in be in a Saints uniform that another team's; this of course was before Darren Sproles came to the Saints!

I'm not assuming anything - honestly, I hadn't even thought of Reggie till your post...

Gotta say it's a headscratcher on how the title suggested Reggie Bush...

Was simply looking at Ingram on his own merits and little body of work so far...

I don't believe Ingram is a bust at this moment; but, I'm starting to get concerned...

Now, he did some tough running in short yardage despite the conversion failure in Green Bay...

But considering we traded to get him - I expected more than just two yards and a cloud of dust - even if he led the league at one point in conversions for first down...

I know some will say 'It's not like we'd had the pick anyway in light of what happened with the Gregg Williams' Debacle'...

But I'm hoping for more from a first round pick with extra investment when there were other options available with the pick...

I was going off of the 'another' reference in your post.

If Ingram never played another down of professional football, then you could rightfully say that he is a bust.

But with PT, Tusk and Sproles, he gives the Saints a potentially un-beatable combination of RBs.

Mark Ingram's sophomore season

The reason the Saints drafted Mark Ingram is because they had had terrible luck keeping their RBs healthy. If any New Orleans RBs go down in 2012, I believe Mark Ingram will be prepared to step up his game. You don't get to be a Heisman winner without being a competitor and I believe Ingram is out to prove he is a quality NFL RB.

In the aftermath of the New Orleans bounty suspensions, Mark Ingram had the best tweet of any Saints' player. His brief quote summed up the sentiments of New Orleans fans like me perfectly. Ingram tweeted, "Don't worry they just making us hungrier and putting a bigger chip on our shoulder!! #WHODATNATION will rise above it!!"

If Mark Ingram is healthy in 2012, runs like he did at Alabama and plays with a chip on his shoulder, there's no telling how great the New Orleans Saints offense could be this year!


Mark Ingram's Surgery Won't Slow Down Saints' Rushing Attack: Fan's Opinion - Yahoo! Sports

my concern about him going into the draft was injuries due to his heavy workload in college.

at this point i have settled on the fact he will be nothing more than the platoon leader for the rb.

pt is still the key imo.

He had one injury in college, a minor knee sprain and only missed two games.

he was nicked up at times throughout his career in college. his toughness let him play two thumbs up. but the nagging injuries were always there.

Thats not how I remember it at all, and I saw every game he ever played in except for a couple of the PPV ones.

k i will go back and look through that years draft a bit.

i'm going on a limb an saying ur all getting carried away. he's going to miss some minny camps but shoukd be ready to put the pads on in july. he's going to be what we all expected from a no 1 pick in 12, yes thats right in 12 with some 11 experience.

Not even sweating it, he'll be fine when the games count

Where my Ivory traders at!? :smile:

Hope he recovers in time to shape up for the season. No spring training for him this year either I guess.

Alaska

Even though this is not serious, it still serves as a good example of why the Saints need to keep their RB corps 4 strong.

One guy goes down, another one steps up, and the Saints' offense doesn't lose a beat.

Its ok....How much do you wanna bet Laron Scott impresses the hell out of everybody this year. We have been picking some hellified running backs lately.

It'll be a tight squeeze to fit in to the 53 man roster, and more than likely he'll be placed on the practice squad roster.

If he is as good as you think, I have no doubt that he'll be snatched off that PS roster by some other team - unless he gets placed on the IR because of some mysterious ailment.

Ingram isn't a bust. This is what a bust looks like.

http://herplexity.files.wordpress.co...oob_kitten.jpg

We don't even have to worry about Ingram getting 20-25 carries a game.
His work load will be optimal for league longevity with this offense.
Lots of rest with good rehab and training and he will be just fine.

Speaking of a "tight squeeze" ...

I don't know about that Fin. When PT went down in the playoffs it completely changed our attack mentality. Ivory is one dimensional and opposing defenses know this and counter differently when he's in.jmho Losing PT was like losing your queen right off the bat in chess.........or worse yet fools mate.