The more information that comes out about Jermod McCoy’s knee, the more it sounds like the Raiders are going to get a healthy cornerback in his first NFL season.
The issue, it seems, could potentially be down the road, and whatever information came out on McCoy’s knee in the last two weeks certainly did some damage to his stock in the draft.
Bleacher Report’s James Palmer talked about McCoy’s knee this week and he was the latest to say he believes McCoy will be able to start the season at close to full strength.
“He had the massive knee injury. That’s where all this comes from,” Palmer said on his Bleacher Report Insider Notebook.
“In 2024, he matched up against Jeremiah Smith, who is a generational talent at the wide receiver position, and everyone though he did an outstanding job. But he had the big knee injury, and everybody wanted to see how he came back from that. At his pro day he performed very well. He ran in the 4.3s, 38-inch vert, 10-foot 7-inch broad jump. He tested really well and he’ll be fine coming right out of the gate.”
“The Raiders took him in the fourth round. The medical is why this man fell. It had nothing to do with his character. Nothing to do with anything other than teams being suspect of his medical,” Palmer continued. “With the medical it’s this. The ACL is fine. It’s intact. He will be playing completely fine for the Raiders.”
“But the longevity of his career is where teams are very, very concerned. When I started making calls around the league, everybody said ‘I don’t know if he’s in the first round anymore.’ I don’t know if anybody predicted the fall to the fourth, but he started slipping out of the first probably a week or less from the start of the draft.”
“He has a cartilage defect in his knee. Surgeons used a bone plug in his knee to treat that defect and some of the teams around the league believe that bone plug is going to need to be replaced which will also being another lengthy recovery. So the length of his career and this cartilage issue is why he fell in the draft.”
Nothing concrete has been reported on McCoy’s prognosis, but former Raiders offensive lineman Marshall Newhouse shared what he was hearing on McCoy’s knee earlier in the week.
“This is that balance of risk and reward. I’ve heard that he’s healed from the ACL. He could play this year,” Newhouse said on the Just Win podcast.
“The question is if he’s going to need another additional procedure that the rehab is 12 to 14 months and then there’s like a 20 percent chance, we won’t turn in the doctors here on that procedure… not working out. And so that’s a very big risk but one that you take with the 101st pick. So it’s interesting. Time absolutely will tell on this one.”
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If we get a shut down corner for 13 games in each of the next two seasons, the pick was a steel.
Especially considering the flyer pics like the third pick made by our assistant GM on a guy that he’s been watching for several years that looking at his game film was a project again. There were better players on the board. Just like there were for everyone of our pics.
How long has it been since we’ve had a solid draft? I love Coach Gru and dream of what may have been in 2020 and beyond. Here we are 26 years later looking for answers and I think we’re finally on the right track. Super Bowl treams are made, put together by men who understand the game. It’s not by chance.
Two years max and we’re again in the thick of it, but don’t you dare count out this year. We’ve got a DE that will stop most pretenders. Don’t discount this unit, they will surprise.
Kirk may be Plunkett 2.0 with a lot more success. I remember Plumk, fan since Super Bowl 2 and nothing but LOVE for Jim.
Something different this year😘