At least two Seahawks, and possibly others, are headed for offseason surgeries, coach Pete Carroll confirmed Monday.
It comes as no surprise given the gruesome nature of Jeremy Lane’s arm injury suffered in Super Bowl XLIX, but Carroll said the cornerback “had a really difficult break.”
“He’s going to have surgery,” Carroll said. “He had a really difficult break. they have to wait a couple of days to make sure it’s all prepared properly and all of that, but he did have a difficult break. He’s going to be OK but it’s a significant surgery.”
Carroll also confirmed an ESPN report that Richard Sherman needs Tommy John surgery for the elbow injury suffered in the NFC championship game, though it’s worth remembering that surgery, and the recovery time, are a lot less significant for an NFL cornerback than a pitcher.
“From what I understand that is accurate,” Carroll said. “I just heard that as well. I’m just telling you, his will to play through that in this game a couple of weeks ago and take it all the way through this game, never wavered. Never wavered.”
Of Sherman, Earl Thomas (shoulder) and Kam Chancellor (knee), Carroll said, “That was a heroic thing that those guys did to play and all three of those guys might wind up getting fixed up here. They all knew it and they wanted to play for their teammates and they did exactly that and did it in great fashion.”
Carroll said he didn’t know if Chancellor will need surgery for the knee injury he suffered in Friday’s practice, but praised the strong safety’s “superhuman” effort in the game.
“We’ll find out all of that as we go on,” Carroll said. “He may have had an earlier injury from years past, which he did wear a brace at times earlier in his career, that may indicate why he was able to come back so fast, maybe some of the damage was from before. But he had a hurt knee and got really banged hard on it. He just woke up the next morning with all of the resolve and all of the prayers that were sent his way and he was ready to go. And then he woke up the next morning on Sunday morning and said ‘I can do this.’ And they strapped him up and he went out there and played. It was a superhuman thing that he pulled off.”
Carroll didn’t think the injury necessarily slowed Chancellor down: “It seemed like he did fine. Again I haven’t seen the film but I think he did fine. We were watching early to see if he was moving well enough and all of that and everybody said and all indications were he was fine.”
Asked if Thomas will need shoulder surgery, Carroll said, “I don’t know that yet. Sometimes with the labrums you don’t, so I don’t know that.”
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