The official injury report, which had Seahawks safety Earl Thomas participating in practice on a limited basis on Friday, suggests that the player is still dealing with a shoulder injury suffered in the first half of the NFC title game. The team’s head coach says Thomas isn’t.
“It’s over,” Carroll told reporters on Friday. “It’s over, really. It was two days of him being very uncomfortable with the setting and it’s over now. He was back in action and in full flow today.”
Discomfort is only part of the problem for Thomas, as former NFL athletic trainer and NBC Sports Medicine Analyst Mike Ryan said on Friday’s PFT Live on NBC Sports Radio. Ryan explained it’s not about pain but range of motion, if Thomas will be wearing a harness to stabilize the shoulder he dislocated. Ryan said that could make it difficult for Thomas to reached over his head with his hands and arms -- which could hamper his ability to deal with a tall pass-catcher like Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski.
For all of Friday’s show (really, I didn’t pick this topic for the sole purpose of pushing the on-demand stream), click the show logo in the top right corner of the page or the NBC Sports Radio logo in the right rail. Other guests included Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN, Larry Holder of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Clarence E. Hill, Jr. of the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram.
