Well, this doesn't sound ideal. Antonio Brown suffered a foot injury from a cryotherapy machine. Seriously.
That landed Brown on the non-football-related injury list, and it's reportedly caused friction between the Raiders and him already.
10 practices into training camp and Antonio Brown has already gone “radio silent” with the Raiders. They have zero clue where he is or what the progress of the foot injury is.
— Chase Williams WPXI (@chasepwilliams) August 8, 2019
The preseason hasn't started yet, and the tension is already high between Brown and his new team.
Now, there's this from Olympic gold medalist sprinter Justin Gatlin.
Speaking with TMZ, Gatlin said he suffered an identical injury to Brown's once after failing to equip himself with the proper footwear in the cryotherapy chamber.
"It was a disaster," Gatlin said. "I had, like, boils and blisters all over my ankles."
Wait, it gets worse.
"He's not going to be able to run those routes properly without healing his feet totally," Gatlin said. "Every day I had to get those blisters popped by hand by a therapist ... It just got really, really bad."
While there's no official timetable for Brown's return and he is currently listed as day-to-day, Gatlin has his doubts that Brown could return within a reasonable amount of time.
"Two things: One, it's Antonio Brown. He's amazing at what he does," Gatlin said. "But at the end of the day, what I sustained, the injuries I sustained from that, it took months — months — of recovery."
The Raiders signed Brown to a three-year, $50.1 million contract that contains $30.1 million in guaranteed money.
If Gatlin's prognosis is correct, the Raiders might just be rethinking everything before the season begins.
Yikes.
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