Bizarre Scenario Unfolding For The Houston Texans With Rookie Not Seeing The Field
Despite signing his rookie deal, second-round pick Marlin Klein remains a sideline spectator at OTAs. With no injury reported, the organization's silence regarding his inactivity is baffling.
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Maybe it's like the way you're being used type of thing- It was combined with you be- 'cause you also battled injuries.
You kinda alluded to it, like, and I think there were concussions and ankle injuries too, right?
Like- Yeah, last season you missed some games.
Yeah.
Yeah, so I got a, I got a, high ankle sprain week eight or nine against Baltimore, and I end up coming back, two weeks, a- after two weeks from that, which is kinda crazy.
But I, you know- it's football.
You j- you Once you get to the point where you can play through something, you just, you go play.
But especially for DM, bro.
I mean, like, you talk about ankle flexion and all that stuff and tendon- Yeah I mean, that's like a pretty important body part.
I, I stuck to one side.
If you watch, if you watch the two games, it was the Vikings and the Steelers.
If you watch those two games, I tried to stay on one side of the field, the one- So your outside plant leg was the good ankle?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
So And then I got, I end up getting a concussion against the Steelers, which kind of- Which concussions, I mean, you know, it's players get knocked for it all the time, and maybe you can become concussion-prone down the road.
But, like, to me, it's like bad luck.
And then given today's era, you know, with the protocols, which is great for player safety, it's like, it's not like a matter of, like, the player can just like, "I'm good."
Like, no, bro.
Like, once you're- You gotta go through in protocol, you're like, you're in their hands, right?
Yeah.
When we played, we end up playing the Eagles.
We played Sunday.
We end up playing the Eagles Thursday night or, yeah, Thursday night or Friday night, the week of Thanksgiving.
So it was like I wasn't gonna make it.
It's five days in a protocol.
And I, I need it.
I'm one of those guys, like, I'm not gonna f- fraud the, the protocol.
If, if I'm- Yeah not feeling right- Yeah I'm gonna let you know I'm not feeling right.
You know?
It's not smart to I got, especially with my kids now, it's like- Yeah I don't want to play no games with brain issues
