Damn your right. That is a huge blow for us on defense. He was not only talented but experianced. Our most experianced corner to boot. Mmmm, It will be interesting how this is handled. No doubt it should open some recruits eyes at the possiblity of early playing time at that position.

Damn!

Last years injuries were mostly all on the d side of the ball. It may have had something to do with them having to play 4994839438 extra plays because the offense couldnt walk without tripping.

The quarterback situation and lack of depth overall, i would have to say this might not be Bad for auburn. We will get more young guys in and go through some growing pains sooner then later. War Eagle

but as auskip07 stated; this may be the best time to get hit with injuries. Run those young kids out there and let them learn on instincts and through mistakes. I’ve got no problem with that if it gets us to a better place in the long run. I’d rather see a freshman making freshman mistakes than juniors and seniors making freshman mistakes.

War Damn Eagle

Coach Chizik is being quite low key about the injury to Savage. He is calling it a “slight” injury. We shall see what comes of this. For what it is worth, Chizik takes the Belicheck side of discussing injuries. To say that he does not discuss them much at all.

This will not help our defensive backs situation at all. In fact, this is a killer blow.

Concur.

AU’s secondary wasn’t very good last year, and this year it will be sans Powers. Horrible news.

Is Dyer really that close to committing? Man the Arkansas guys are going to crap themselves. I’d much rather him at AU than Arky. The biggest worry I’d have as an AU fan right now is hanging on to some of these commits if the losses start piling up. It could avalanche quickly without a strong start to the season.

If the achillies is just torn and not ruptured, he still has a chance of getting back on the field this season with the proper treatment. If it is a complete rupture, it most definately will require season ending surgery. But from what I have read on various sites is that it is a slight injury, which leads me to believe that it is only a slight tear.

I do not want to see a repeat of last year where we injured all the players off the field. Conditioning must include stretching as well. To stretch the achilles you can do calf raises on a step or 2X4 and get a good stretch by dipping below the step.

Warm ups and stretching are not sexy, but they do prevent pulls and tears.

did’nt Tez Doolittle have a ruptured Achilles and came back from surgery to have it reattached? Either way I hope for the best with Aarron Savage whether that includes AU football in his future or not. And this will probably mean that the Juco CB/RB recruit (Demond Washington) and Taikwon Page from Georgia Military Academy will see plenty of time in the defensive backfield early on. It does suck but its not the end all……AU played lots of young talent last season in the defensive backfield as well that should be much improved this season.