Q. Back in the spring, you sustained a severe eye injury while filming a story about football minicamps with the Jets. Tell us what happened.

I had gotten in shape and (Jets coach) Herman Edwards gave me permission to go to minicamp with them. I was doing a feature for ESPN on what it’s like to be in minicamp. But I was serious about it.

The day I was there, there were eight wideouts and the wide receiver coach said I was rated number six. I didn’t have any delusions of grandeur. I was hoping I’d be good enough to be a scrub wide receiver or a practice wide receiver in the NFL. I found that out that day. I didn’t disappoint myself and I didn’t embarrass myself.

At end of practice all the wideouts went to the Jugs Machine, it’s a machine that shoots balls out. I had never done that before. I had been catching everything that day in practice from the quarterbacks. I was probably a little close and the thing was fast and the thing was faster than I thought it was.

Q. The ball, coming out of the machine, hit you square in the left eye. How bad was it?

It was serious. I had emergency surgery that night and was out of work for a couple months. It was tough. I had some eye surgery before so I knew how severe it was. It was probably more scary that day, not knowing. The next day came and I knew it would be a long recovery back. I still need some more surgery. The eye is not great now. But I had some time off.

November 19th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Stuart Scott on ESPN right now “Yea, true dat”
the fuck? and by the way, what the hell is up with dude’s eye?

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he tried to work out with the Jets a couple years back, and caught a football from a pitching machine to the eye … clown …

^Glass I think, or severly cross-eyed.

i’m callin it….lil wayne raps over dragonforce with auto-tune

I bought this CD the day it came out, I think I was going into 7th grade, and it was the summer. I lost. This song is actually good tho. The CD was hot garbage tho.