SHEETS DONE FOR THE YEAR
Oakland Raiders running back hopeful and reigning CFL Grey Cup MVP Kory Sheets had hoped to finally make his first NFL team this year, but those hopes were dashed in an instant in the Raiders’ 31-21 loss to the Packers Friday night. Sheets took a hard, blindside hit that laid him out on the turf and popped the ball loose.
In the collision, his leg was twisted and he suffered a torn Achilles, the Raiders announced. Shortly afterward, Sheets himself announced his hopes for making the Raiders roster this season are over.
Sheets (@Sheets24K) wrote on Twitter: “A dream deferred … out for the year”.
After saying he is out for the year, he thanked both the Raiders fans as well as his fans from the Saskatchewan Roughriders (RiderNation) for their support.
It’s a tough break for Sheets who was in a good battle with Latavius Murray at both running back and kick returner. This is the second time he has seen his hopes of making an NFL team end in the preseason with an injury. He was lost to an Achilles injury in preseason with the Dolphins prior to the 2011 season as well.
Sheets tore his achilles when he was with the Dolphins, any word if it’s the same one?
One has to wonder if this will be a career ending injury.
Empty feeling in my gut.
This sucks big time!!
Here's the hit…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ikvEukw5V8
A dream crushed for this year but the determination and stamina it must have taken for Kory to get to the NFL not once but twice speaks volumes of his character. Once a Rider always a Rider, proud of him.
I've heard it's the other Achilles.
So sad for him. He was going to make the team.
That's a tough break for Cory and at his age it might make things even worse. Fortunately we have some good backs and right now we're ok there. It would be nice acquire a quality receiver as well as get Dressler back in the fold. The handwriting is on the wall for him at KC.
Thats too bad.
I was still holding out hope he'd come back in September and help the running game. Feel bad for him because I think he was having a good camp.
Career ender – SAD …
I am sure he can turn to Rob Bagg for encouragement and inspiration. He can mount a comeback next year, probably in the CFL.
he will play again but probably not in the NFL. He could return to Canada for next year.
Would love to hear more about it on CKRM's Sportscage however that plug has been pulled, at least, for the out of town podcast listeners. Note to CKRM, at least have the guts enough to admit you are cutting it or making changes, don't just say it is a tecnnichal problem as that is BS to say the least. ———-Suggestion: Simply put a commercial at the front end of the podcast so that you get paid every time someone tunes in (similar to the insurance commercial when someone tunes into CKRM live radio); seems a simple resolve. But please don't… Read more »
Apparently tech troubles. Said you can access it through Facebook site.
F*ck F*cebook… Not everyone is connected to that (we don't live our existence through it)!
We are Rider Fans not social network junkies.
Totally agree with anon 14. Not everyone lives for facebook.
Facebook is an invasion of privacy and is a TOTAL timewaster. WHo has time for that ???? Not sure what dempgraphic CKRM is trying to appeal to ?????
I have time for Facebook, I absolutely love it. To read the narratives of individuals so narcissistic they post what they'll eat, when they'll eat and the complimentary selfies that go with it.
Facebook for a guy like me is basically a free admission to what I call, The Museum of Social Decay. I can't get enough of it.
On a separate note hats off to Corey Sheets for laying it out there and following his dream.
Y'er Welcome
Obama
I choose to save my worship for those not involved in domestic charges and illegal possession in an 18 month period. Sometimes things even out for those who choose to live a certain way. Rob Bagg and Sheets cant even be said in the same monrh – let alone sentence. KK a cup.
Kory Sheets
Learn to read Obama.
Dont feel too sorry for him …. Being on ir he just made the league minimum of 420,000