LaMichael James Seriously Injured! Arm Likely Broken

Oregon Ducks star running back LaMichael James was just carted off the field with serious injury. Judging by the replay the injury is most likely a broken arm or a significant tear of a muscle, ligament, or cartilage. The crowd gasped as the incident was replayed on the big screen in which his right arm could clearly be seen extending beyond the point normally possible for the human body.

It is not know at this time exactly what happened, but we will be keeping an ear out and look for a copy of the replay to add to this story. After seeing the replay we hope that he will be able to come back before the end of the season, but it does not look good. In fact we feel that he is lucky not to have suffered a compound fracture. Fortunately for the Ducks backup running backs Kenjon Barner and DeAnthony Thomas are both very good.

In our opinion both the Ducks and LaMichael are extremely lucky that he is not a quarterback because this most likely be a season ending injury in such a case. If you don't have to throw the ball then arm and shoulder injuries are simply a matter of re-establishing range of motion before combining pain killers like Vicodin, Percocet, and Tylenol 3 with perseverance to get by until fully healed. This author personally broke a thumb playing high school football and played with a padded cast for several weeks.

UPDATE: After seeing the replay again on ESPN he appears to have suffered an elbow injury, not a shoulder injury most likely a broken or dislocated elbow. If its broken he might miss a few weeks and if its dislocated he could be back very soon.

This author personally suffered a dislocated elbow playing baseball as a teenager when being hit by a pitch so hard that it dislocated my elbow and left a bruise shaped like the stitches on the ball. It was during one of the last 2 innings of the game, my team was up by more than 10 runs, and there was no one else to sub in for me, so I took my base because without me we would have lost our first game by forfeit, and I went back out into left field to finish the game praying that no one would hit the ball my way because I would not have been able to throw it any further than I threw the bat as I feel to ground which only made it half way to the pitcher's mound.

UPDATE: It appears that his arm is not broken and he told the media in the video embedded below that he just dislocated his elbow.