Source: www.phillymag.com --- Saturday, February 27, 2016
Paxton Lynch. (USA Today Sports) INDIANAPOLIS — Quarterbacks trickled in and out of the media room at the NFL Combine on Thursday, with all of the top prospects addressing reporters except one: Paxton Lynch . Later, rumors circulated about why the Memphis quarterback unexpectedly missed his availability, and it was attributed to potential health problems. But Lynch put that speculation to bed on Friday. “I had an issue with my left knee and my right knee and an issue with my AC joint,” he said. “When I hurt my AC joint back in my redshirt sophomore year of college in Cincinnati, I didn’t realize that I had — I think they said it was just a small fracture in my clavicle. So that popped up on the X-ray, but it was healed. But there was just some piece of the bone, I guess, just floating around in there. “So it spooked a team or two, I think, and that’s why they requested the MRIs and all that. But I mean, I didn’t miss a game or a practice or a single throw because of it, and none of those injuries bother me today. I’m 100 percent, so I was more than willing to do what they need me to do.” It’s always interesting to learn why top prospects who attended non-Power Five colleges weren’t given opportunities at bigger programs out of high school, whether the player was a late-bloomer or simply underestimated. But with Lynch, part of the issue seems to be the scheme he ran in high school. “I didn’t really throw the ball at all in high sc ...
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