Sergio Kindle, the Baltimore Ravens second-round draft pick who suffered a fractured skull in a fall and still hasn’t signed with the team, says he thinks he can play this year.
“I’m confident that I’ll be cleared,” Kindle told the Baltimore Sun on Tuesday night. “I thought the tests went well. But I don’t have the final say. When the doctors give the results to the team, that will let me know if I can come back.”
The tests Kindle referred to were neurological and cognitive evaluations yesterday at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. He has an MRI scheduled for today, and then he’s heading back to Texas.
Kindle, a linebacker from Texas, seems to feel good and believe he’ll be able to play fairly soon. But the Ravens aren’t even going to talk about a contract until they’re sure he’s ready to play — and it’s still possible the Ravens will determine he’s not ready to play this year at all.
Kindle said he fell down the stairs when he got up at night to go to the bathroom while a guest at an unfamiliar home.
“I made a wrong turn,” he said. “It wasn’t my house. It was my first time being there. It was a big house.”
Now, Kindle says,
he’s healed and ready to go.
“Once I’m on the team, the sky is the limit from there,” he said. “Once I’m cleared, I’m going to take it out of the doctor’s hands and do so well in rehab that I’ll prove that I’m ready.”
vikings fans and coaches claim the stairs hit him weally weally hard.
“I made a wrong turn,” he said. “It wasn’t my house. It was my first time being there. It was a big house.”
It happens all the time to me too, Sergio. I find myself in places I’m unfamiliar with all the time, and I happen to fall down stairs, roofs, and ledges.
I always think that every layout of every building is like my own house!
Oh, and I’m also always intoxicated, so that doesn’t help either.
So now, i’f he doesn’t play this year and doesn’t sign a contact this season, does he return to the draft next year? Like a player that heldout? Or are there different guidelines for an injury to a draft pick before he signs his contract?
Is it true that he has Narcalepsy? I wondered why he slid in the draft?
I wish him well. He has a lot of catching up to do!
if sergio kindle thinks he will be just fine this season,why is he still going to physical therapy?according to him,he just hit his head.
the public is not getting the whole truth here.
Hey, Shaun White (famous snowboarder, skateboarder, Olympic gold medalist) suffered a fractured skull and is still very relevant in his career.
Good luck recovering Sergio and I hope to see you on the field soon.
@TheRedBengal : Where did it say he was intoxicated ? Oh wait it didnt… Grow up!
LOL! this guy did it on purpose cause he don’t wanna get in the ring with ray ray. cause like, ray ray STABBED someone. LOLOL!!!! it was like 10 years ago, but it’s still funny!!! “hey ray ray, i’m here to play” “no you ain’t” *stab stab stab* LOL!!!
# Marky McFly says: September 8, 2010 8:09 AM
So now, i’f he doesn’t play this year and doesn’t sign a contact this season, does he return to the draft next year? Like a player that heldout? Or are there different guidelines for an injury to a draft pick before he signs his contract?
Marky, Im not a rules expert but I believe the Ravens retain the rights to him for one full year. After that I think they can cut him and then he would be open market.
Before any fellow raven fans get pissed at lame PFT poster, please understand satire. I think its hilarious because that’s how bungle fans actually sound lol.
Stooler “fans” don’t even register as human beings IMO, so I don’t care how they think.
I like how everyone “knows” not thinks but “knows” that there’s something else to this like he was drunk or something like it’s impossible for ppl to just have an accident lol where u guys there or something? Cuz you guys talk like u saw the whole thing happen
# Lame_PFT_Poster says: September 8, 2010 8:54 AM
LOL! this guy did it on purpose cause he don’t wanna get in the ring with ray ray. cause like, ray ray STABBED someone. LOLOL!!!! it was like 10 years ago, but it’s still funny!!! “hey ray ray, i’m here to play” “no you ain’t” *stab stab stab* LOL!!!
Awesome way to take anything remotely ravens related to bring up the ray lewis murder charges from a decade ago. I love when a poster lives up to his nickname. To quote billy the bard “To thine ownself be true.”
Oh, and uuh, LOL.
I always fall down a flight of stairs when I’m in a new place.
I just have trouble maneuvering the turn to fall down the second flight.
So what’s the big deal.
((((there were no drugs or alcohol involved in this accident))))
Of course he’s gonna say he’s fine, he’s trying to get P-A-I-D (That’s why my moms hate me). Plus he wants a Super Bowl ring.
@ Lame_PFT_Poster – Your handle says it perfectly.
Marky, we do not retain his rights if we don’t sign him, nor will we get compensation if we don’t.
GRPatriot, yes, the Ravens came out after Kindle’s accident and said that he has narcolepsy.
lame_PFT_poster, you are aptly named.
In Russia, stairs fall on you.