Any organization in any sport — not just the NFL — absolutely loves it when previously injured players get healthy and begin to deliver value. It’s almost like acquiring a new player. A team didn’t have anything or wasn’t getting anything in return. Then, a player gets healthy and suddenly the ROI becomes robust and substantial. Pete Carroll and the Las Vegas Raiders hope this is what happens with cornerback Jakorian Bennett. Raiders Wire has more on this:
“Every year since Jakorian Bennett was drafted, he has found himself behind in the depth chart, having to work his way up. It’s no different this offseason. Despite coming off a season in which he looked like a bonafide starter before injury ended it prematurely, he has been running with the twos behind newcomers Eric Stokes and rookie Darius Porter. It was a shoulder injury that ended Bennett’s 2024 season, and apparently it was one that had been bothering him for a very long time. And finally reached the point he couldn’t play through it and causing him to surgically repair it.
“’It feels amazing, man. I haven’t had both my shoulders since college,’ said Bennett. ‘I’d go out there during games, knowing my shoulder was going to pop out. Probably last season my shoulder popped out like five times. Because I had a torn labrum, you know? A lot of people don’t know that but I was just thugging it out. They’d put it back in and I’d go back in or whatever, but it feels good to have it back right. Just time to take that next step.’”
If Bennett does take the next step, Pete Carroll will be a very happy man in Vegas.
This article originally appeared on Trojans Wire: Pete Carroll, Raiders hope to get added value from newly healthy cornerback
Reporting by Matt Zemek / Trojans Wire
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