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The bad news won’t stop for injury-prone running back Montario Hardesty.

Coach Rob Chudzinski announced today that Hardesty will undergo arthroscopic knee surgery Thursday. Chudzinski didn’t have a timetable for recovery, but a scope usually sidelines a player for about a month.

Chudzinski didn’t say which knee was bothering Hardesty, but he’s had the anterior cruciate ligament repaired in both knees – the right as a freshman at Tennessee and the left as a rookie in 2010. Hardesty missed most of training camp with a hamstring injury, then returned to team drills Monday only to dislocate his right thumb catching a high snap.

The revelation of the knee issue was a surprise and Chudzinski said it was unrelated to the hamstring. “The knee had been nagging him,” Chudzinski said.

Hardesty’s roster spot was in jeopardy before the scope.

During his time on the stationary bike, Dion Lewis and Brandon Jackson had performed well and may have moved past him on the depth chart as backups to Trent Richardson.

Hardesty will miss the whole preseason and likely won’t be ready for the opener Sept. 8. The Browns could keep him on the active roster, waive him, put him on short-term injured reserve or season-ending injured reserve.

He has been limited to 23 games and 537 rushing yards in three years with the Browns. He was a second-round draft choice. -

Time to move on.
Sorry to hear.

Horrible waste of a draft pick. I wasn't happy when we chose him. Unfortunately he's been what I thought he was going to be. Fragile.
Thanks for collecting a paycheck for being on the trainers table.
Time to cut our losses.

Is it frowned upon to IR an injured player just so he won't be able to go to a different team?

I would definitely IR him.

Has he practiced with the team at all since Camp opened??

Yes.

j/c

Within the limits of the "laws", I believe it's time to cut our losses and release him; I doubt a trade being possible. If you can't stay healthy, then there is no spot for you as other guys are waiting in line...

Half of one practice then injured again... so sad.

It's almost laughable with this guy's injury career. To think all of the other players we could have drafted in his spot (and with the picks we gave up). He has given us nothing.

I know this doesn't mean much because there are factors we know now that we didn't at the time but here are some players drafted after Hardesty:

Jimmy Graham
Eric Decker
Brandon Spikes
Navorro Bowman
Mike Williams
Aaron Hernandez

That's not as many as I would have thought and it pales in comparison to the list of guys drafted after Massaquoi and Robiskie.

Graham or Bowman would have been great picks...

If we would have listened to Bernie we would have had Jimmy Graham (what do you think about that Peter King?) But in all seriousness, this is bound to happen when you have a history of taking guys with injury concerns like Heckert.

is it possible that he saw the writing on the wall and then complained about his knee knowing he'd be paid for the whole year while on IR?

I would think that they don't do surgery over a complaint. There would be an MRI and they'd need to see something, I think.

How many paychecks should he get for sitting? It's pretty much been his career path.
Personally I'd volunteer for surgeries to earn the kinda money he's made. What a career choice!

It's not like he's trying to get injured.

I understand that. I feel for the kid. But at some point we've stopped paying the player for his production and started paying for the surgeon's kid's college fund. I think that line has been crossed. It's time to cut bait. I'd rather open the roster spot for someone else. Besides the surgeon needs a break.

j/c

Is it just me, or is the resentment in this thread palpable?

Worse second round pick Robiskie or Hardesty? (Both are far behind Veikune.)

I feel sorry for the guy but at this point it's just over. I'd rather cut my losses and go with Richardson, Lewis, B Jackson, and Obie as the FB.

My bad. Either way it doesn't change my feelings at the time of the pick or currently. Wasted pick.

Tough news this is for him. IR means we have to vote later on his status. If this is slow is the practice squad an option. May have just injured himself out of a roster spot.

Practice Squad is not an option and neither is PUP. So it will either be waived/injured, IR, or we just keep him on the active roster (which we won't do).

I think he's gone. Feel for the kid, though.

I just don't see a reason to keep him. He's got bum knees and just can't stay healthy. Why would we even IR him? To see if he'll be healthy next year? We have Trent and a host of other RBs.

Hardesty didn't show me enough in his limited play that made me say he's worth a roster spot for 6 or 7 games a year.

JMHO

I'm still trying to figure out how a sore thumb from an errant snap turns into knee surgery.

I feel for him too. Then I think about how much money he made as a Brown. And I feel less sorry for him.

As good as he looked it's time to move on. People bagging on Trent for being injury prone, this guy is TR lite in that regard.


A shame because he looked good in spells last season.

May I use your quote about a while back about my RGIII wheelchair.

"That's cold dawg, lol"

I thought it was a thumb injury? Now a knee scope?

Wow, that escalated quickly. Sorry Montario but I think this is the nail in the coffin.