'17 TN WR Princeton Fant (UT commit 6/18/16)

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Princeton Fant's comeback from an ACL injury will be cut short.

The La Vergne senior wide receiver and Tennessee commitment will undergo more surgery on a repaired ACL on Sept. 16 and will miss the remainder of the season after that, Fant confirmed Thursday.

He didn't re-injure the knee, but when doctors did a routine check, they found things hadn't healed as well as they wanted.

"Some things didn't catch, it was a little loose," the 6-2, 215-pound Fant said. "It's a precaution. They want to be safe and make sure I'm ready for Tennessee."

Fant plans to playing a limited role for the Wolverines prior to the Sept. 16 surgery.

"They said I can't really do any more damage, so I'll play until Sept. 16. I'll be limited in some of the things I do on the field. I want to avoid certain plays where I could get my knee rolled on."
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"I've felt normal," Fant said, assuring that he didn't re-injure the knee. "I didn't think anything was wrong. I was cutting and doing things I normally do.

"They're just being cautions. I'm disappointed, but I want to be healthy for Tennessee."
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Vols commitment Princeton Fant to miss much of La Vergne's season
 
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Think this puts him on the line of being recruited over?
Love the size if thats legit, 6-2 215 with speed. Could really be a boss vol if he heals that leg properly.
 
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NapTownVol9 said:
Think this puts him on the line of being recruited over?
Love the size if thats legit, 6-2 215 with speed. Could really be a boss vol if he heals that leg properly.
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I don't think he will be recruited over. Brooks wasn't after 2 knee injuries
 
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" My doctor said I could play the whole season, but I just don’t want to really risk it over high-school football,” he said.

“I want to be able to perform in college and hopefully be able to go to the league one day. I heard that Jalen Hurd didn’t (finish) his (senior) high-school season, or Preston (Williams), and now look at those guys. They’re NFL-bound,” he added, referring to Tennessee’s starting junior running back and sophomore wide receiver, who are both former five-star prospects."

“I won’t be doing as much as I did,” he said. “I’ll be offensive-only — just run hitch routes or something short or just a fade, just straight go. I really won’t be running as much into the middle of the field or reverses so my leg doesn’t get rolled up or anything like that."-247

“When I catch the ball, if I don’t have anything, I’m going to get out of bounds, run out of bounds — just be safe about it.”
 
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Probably a smart long-term choice by this young man. Get it fixed now. I wouldn't be surprised if UT medical personnel advised him on this.
 
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I'm a Doctor of Physical Therapy. This is weird. He wouldn't have been given the go ahead to resume sports activities if his follow up MRI didn't look good.

I'm interested in why they decided to do another MRI if he wasn't hurting or having instability issues. And what they saw different between his last MRI and this MRI.

And why play for 3 more weeks? All very strange.
 
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VolsnCards5 said:
I'm a Doctor of Physical Therapy. This is weird. He wouldn't have been given the go ahead to resume sports activities if his follow up MRI didn't look good.

I'm interested in why they decided to do another MRI if he wasn't hurting or having instability issues. And what they saw different between his last MRI and this MRI.

And why play for 3 more weeks? All very strange.
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The 6-foot-2, 208-pound Fant said he “tweaked” the knee “pretty bad” a few weeks ago during a scrimmage against Pearl-Cohn, which convinced him to get the knee “checked out” again. He said he could have played through the injury for the rest of his senior season, but the surgery “was something that I was going to need at some point.”

“I got it checked out, and they told me I might need surgery on it again, just to be safe for college,” said Fant.

college football next year.”

Fant said his current injury is “not as bad” as his previous knee injury, which required surgery on the same knee in May 2015, and he expects to make a full recovery by the time he enrolls at Tennessee next summer.

“My doctor said I could play the whole season, but I just don’t want to really risk it over high-school football,” he said.
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The above makes it sound like a new injury, not a previous one that did not properly heal.
 
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