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I have been wondering what the delay has been but his situation is not talked about other than he will be back soon. The last comment I saw was when Ted Thompson was asked about Sherrod and he said a week ago that he will be back soon.
I saw this article in the Milwaukee paper where the reporter talked to Sherrods family to get info and I found out he had ankle surgery this spring that came up because of his leg not healing right. It is a longer article so if you want to read click link.
Family of Packers' Sherrod explains long absence from team
Last year, Sherrod was on the physically unable to perform list from late July until mid-November. He participated in practice for two weeks, moving gingerly through light individual work. There were signs of a slight limp when he tried to run.
He reverted to the PUP list for the rest of the season.
"When they tried to put him out there, they noticed that he couldn't put the weight on his leg," said Louis Sherrod. "Then they had to do MRIs and scans to find out why his leg was shaking uncontrollably. They discovered that he had an ankle problem.
"They didn't even know that he needed another surgery until this spring. All of last year was wasted. That could have been from complications from the first surgery, but it was something that was left undone.
"They couldn't figure it out ... that his bones did not heal right together."
A decision was made in February that Sherrod would undergo surgery in Charlotte. The procedure was performed by foot and ankle specialist Robert Anderson, who had operated on many other Packers over the years.
"They didn't have to re-break it," said Louis Sherrod, a retired Navy air-traffic controller from Columbus, Miss. "The two bones that were fused together affected his ankle.
"As far as I know, that was a big problem for him. That's why he had to fly out to the best ankle doctor in the country."
It was the understanding of Dezmond Sherrod that his brother, who at 24 is four years younger, underwent arthroscopic ankle surgery.
"It was just complications from the way that the surgery was performed," said Dezmond Sherrod. "They affected other mechanisms within the leg.
I saw this article in the Milwaukee paper where the reporter talked to Sherrods family to get info and I found out he had ankle surgery this spring that came up because of his leg not healing right. It is a longer article so if you want to read click link.
Family of Packers' Sherrod explains long absence from team
Last year, Sherrod was on the physically unable to perform list from late July until mid-November. He participated in practice for two weeks, moving gingerly through light individual work. There were signs of a slight limp when he tried to run.
He reverted to the PUP list for the rest of the season.
"When they tried to put him out there, they noticed that he couldn't put the weight on his leg," said Louis Sherrod. "Then they had to do MRIs and scans to find out why his leg was shaking uncontrollably. They discovered that he had an ankle problem.
"They didn't even know that he needed another surgery until this spring. All of last year was wasted. That could have been from complications from the first surgery, but it was something that was left undone.
"They couldn't figure it out ... that his bones did not heal right together."
A decision was made in February that Sherrod would undergo surgery in Charlotte. The procedure was performed by foot and ankle specialist Robert Anderson, who had operated on many other Packers over the years.
"They didn't have to re-break it," said Louis Sherrod, a retired Navy air-traffic controller from Columbus, Miss. "The two bones that were fused together affected his ankle.
"As far as I know, that was a big problem for him. That's why he had to fly out to the best ankle doctor in the country."
It was the understanding of Dezmond Sherrod that his brother, who at 24 is four years younger, underwent arthroscopic ankle surgery.
"It was just complications from the way that the surgery was performed," said Dezmond Sherrod. "They affected other mechanisms within the leg.
