Lockette to get neck surgery

[WizardHawk]

More serious than we thought last night. Doubt he sees the field the rest of this season. Anything around that area is no joke.

 

[WizardHawk]

Seattle Seahawks WR Ricardo Lockette will have surgery on neck

The Seattle Seahawks, in a statement released Monday morning, said that receiver Ricardo Lockette will have surgery to repair ligament damage in his neck.

Here’s the full text of the statement: “Wide receiver Ricardo Lockette sustained ligament damage in his neck that requires surgery to stabilize. He will undergo surgery this afternoon at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. He has full motion and feeling in all extremities and his prognosis is good. We will provide an update following surgery.”


The injury will sideline Lockette for the rest of the season, coach Pete Carroll said during his regular weekly day-after radio show on ESPN 710 Seattle.

Lockette was injured while covering a punt late in the first half of Sunday’s 13-12 win at Dallas when he was hit hard by Dallas’ Jeff Heath.

His surgery is scheduled to begin within the hour. More details will be released after, but I doubt we will find out his long term prognosis for some weeks to come.

 

[WizardHawk]

Concussion event that knocked him out cold and actually tore a muscle/ligament in his neck.

Even coming back from that you still have to wonder what long term impact that's going to have on him well after football.

Reports on Twitter are that RS is furiously flying on the phones presumably looking for another player to pick up to replace him.

None of the news this morning is good for either him, nor the team.

 

[Cloud]

This is such bullshit and unnecessary. Pete said sis season is over and does not know if it's career-threatening.
Lockette is a beast on ST and we lost a huge weapon.

But we need to put football aside and hope that this will not have any negative impact long terms for his health.

Fucking pissed by this.

 

[WizardHawk]

Condotta followed up on the comment by Carroll saying RS was working the phones by saying it was just him looking for players in general. He reminded us that Richardson would be returning so the numbers of WR wouldn't change. They don't have anyone as impactful as him for ST, but that's why he's still on this team.

I think you can both talk about his overall health and long term questions and his football career and impact on the team. It's not a mutually exclusive conversation. Everyone is going to cross their fingers that he fully recovers and doesn't have long term impact from it. But this hit was so bad I could see it having some effect on his life long after retirement. Just have to hope we are wrong.

 

[WizardHawk]

Ricardo Lockette completes 5-plus-hour neck surgery in Dallas for disc repair, neurological signs “all positive”; Marshawn Lynch, Russell Okung in Texas with him

Ricardo Lockette completes 5-plus-hour neck surgery in Dallas for disc repair, neurological signs “all positive”; Marshawn Lynch, Russell Okung stay back in Texas with him

“Ricardo Lockette underwent successful neck surgery this afternoon at the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas,” the team’s statement said, about six hours after coach Pete Carroll had said he was going into the operation. “He is expected to remain in the hospital for a few days for recovery. He will be up and moving around as early as tomorrow and his neurological signs are all positive.”

The News Tribune has learned running back Marshawn Lynch and left tackle Russell Okung stayed behind in Dallas overnight Sunday into Monday to be with Lockette while the rest of the Seahawks flew home. Seattle’s wide receiver and special-teams ace also has his family from Georgia, who attended Sunday’s 13-12 win over the Cowboys, and a team trainer plus staffer there with him at Baylor Medical Center in the aftermath of a hit he never saw by Dallas safety Jeff Heath during a punt. The blow high on his chest immediately crumbled Lockette, left him motionless on the field for many minutes and then strapped to a stretcher with his helmet still on.

Carroll had already declared the 29-year-old Lockette’s season is over. The coach said the team doesn’t know right now whether he will play football again.

In a far more important, quality-of-life matter, Carroll said Lockette is expected to be able to walk out of surgery and rejoin the team following a post-operative stay of about a week at Baylor Medical Center there in Texas.


Read more here: Ricardo Lockette completes 5-plus-hour neck surgery in Dallas for disc repair, neurological signs “all positive”; Marshawn Lynch, Russell Okung in Texas with him

For all of the haters that are sick of Lynch's shtick with the media, he hasn't left Lockette's hospital since the game ended and he was able to get there. That's Marshawn.

His family was there from Georgia for that game. I can't imagine what that moment had to be like for them. I'm sure this has been a very scary last 24 hours for all of them.

 

[WizardHawk]

TMZ report: Seattle Seahawks receiver Ricardo Lockette hands out cheeseburgers to homeless in Dallas

Seattle Seahawks receiver Ricardo Lockette did a good deed as he was leaving the hospital in Dallas last week, according to TMZ, which reports that he handed out “100 cheeseburgers to homeless people.”

TMZ reports further that: “Lockette and his parents were leaving the Dallas hospital where the NFL star underwent surgery for a hit he took against the Cowboys when they passed through an area with a large homeless population … and Ricardo decided he needed to do something.”

Lockette’s father, Earl, is also quoted saying that the decision to buy the burgers from a nearby McDonald’s proved “therapeutic” for Lockette, as well, as he begins his recovery from neck surgery.

Never thought of McDonalds as either food or therapeutic, but good on him for doing something good.

 

[packerzrule]

Helluva player. Hope he returns to full strength.

 

[Anointed One]

More serious than we thought last night. Doubt he sees the field the rest of this season. Anything around that area is no joke.

I wonder if he will ever see the field again as a player...

 

[Judge Fudge]

According to the score app.

He going to retire tommorow

Going to miss you Hitette

 

[Judge Fudge]

Ricardo Lockette to announce his retirement

 

[HaroldSeattle]

Sad day, but we knew his NFL career was done with that injury. Hope the Seahawks find a way to keep in around as a assistant coach of some kind or something.

 

[Screamin12th]

thanks for everything Lockette, i know i will miss him and i know the team will miss what i believe was the best gunner in the NFL.

 

[dude82]

It's sad that he has to retire, but it could have been so much worse. Hopefully he gets healthy enough to enjoy retirement.

 

[Caliskinsfan]

 

[jerseyhawksfan79]

He gave us 100% every time he stepped onto the field and us fans are thankful he helped bring a championship to this franchise. Here's to a quick recovery and happy retirement!

 

[uwdawgfan]

Good guy....untapped talent,too bad! Thanks for the memories!