Getty ImagesDuring the 2011 football season, Bills receiver Stevie Johnson dealt with a groin injury, aggravating the condition in December. On Monday, he’ll have the problem fixed.
Johnson has disclosed via Twitter that he has traveled to Philadelphia to have groin surgery. “I Need to be 100 for Y’all this Year,” Johnson said via Twitter.
Agent C.J. LaBoy tells WKBW-TV that it is “extremely minor surgery that won’t keep [Johnson] out long at all. He will be at [the Bills'] facility for all activities.”
Minor or not, surgery is still surgery. And so we wish Stevie the best and hope that he’ll make a quick recovery.
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Did he shoot himself in the groin during the Jets game, while mocking Plaxico Burress or something?
Anything involving the groin sounds major to me.
good luck to him
Why didn’t he have the surgery 4 months ago?
Why wait until now to have it done? Makes no sense. It could take from 12 to 15 weeks to get back from that completely.
Good way to avoid training camp!
Why is he taking care of this now? It seems too soon. It would make more sense to wait to have the surgery until the night before opening day of the football season in September.
It’s never good when the words “groin” and “injury” are used in the same sentence.
This transcends team rivalries.
Our collective PFT thoughts and prayers go out to him and his loved ones.
He better light up Revis this year.
clearly this was a bounty…
what say you, Eric Berry?
He’ll be fine.. Outside of his antics the real story is this guy went from a 7th round pick to a reliable NFL quality receiver .. So knowing how hard he worked to get from where he was to where he is I don’t expect him to miss any significant time
“Are you Fu@$ing kidding me?” Bill’s Draft War Room…..
Brew Drees wants an explaination! (thought we wete going after knees not a dudes junk)
Best to ya Stevie. I was there once myself. It wasn’t too bad…
gobills716 says: Apr 29, 2012 10:51 PM
Why didn’t he have the surgery 4 months ago?
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I’m willing to bet that his “groin” injury was misdiagnosed by the team doctors and on second opinion after “rest” (which is typically the treatment for a groin pull/tear), it turned out to be a sports hernia.
Sports hernias are more typical in soccer players and hockey goalies. The starting and stopping and pushing off by wide receivers is much closer to those two other sports players. I remember most notably former Raiders WR Jerry Porter was told by team doctors that he had a groin injury that lingered for weeks on end, when in fact it was a sports hernia. Weeks of rest didn’t help, but to treat the sports hernia, all it took was a 30 minute surgical procedure.
Sports hernia surgery recovery time varies, but it’s typical and expected to be able to walk out on your own power immediately after surgery and full recovery (NFL standards healthy) is a few weeks.
Another reason the should of signed Wallace during RFA period.
And tomorrow PFT will have an article saying Eric Berry just tweeted that he believes that Stevie Johnson injured his groin will trying to collect a bounty on him.
gobills716 says: Apr 29, 2012 10:51 PM
Why didn’t he have the surgery 4 months ago?
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Likely the doctors wanted to wait and see if the issue would heal on it’s own. It was healing too slow so surgery became necessary.
If it involved a scalpel near my groin I’d want to wait and see too.
As long as he’s 100 percent in September I don’t care.
Coming from someone who’s had 5 surgeries in the groin area, there’s no such thing as a “minor” groin surgery. Good luck Stevie.
What a dumb ass! Football season ended in December!
Why didn’t he have surgery then?
Typical BS so he doesn’t have to participate in OTA’s!
While they’re at it maybe they could throw in a lobotomy.
Is he becoming Stephanie Johnson?
Has he blamed God yet?
Stevie is going to attempt to have testicles implanted. If the surgery is a success, look for him to change his name to “Steve”.
It seems the Bills would have insisted that he have the surgery when they extended his contract back in March.
Any surgery requires healing time, so why wait right before OTA’s?
This guy just does not get it
Likely he waited to have the surgery at the direction of a doctor who advised him to see if it would heal naturally. Now that it won’t, the procedure will need to be completed. With a little over 3 months until training camp, this shouldn’t be a problem.
No issue with the timing. Get it done and get healthy. It is not like these Vets really need OTAs. Specially when you are not installing anything new or trying to work timing with a new QB.
Just get Healthy Stevie and show the NFL yet again that Revis Island is a MYTH and you actually own that Island.
@buffalomafia When has Stevie ever missed anything? Ever? I’m pretty sure he was one of the first people there last year. I’m sure there’s a good medical reason for why he waited. Like…I don’t know…the chance of it healing and not requiring surgery?
I’m sure Eric Berry will be wishing him well!
Get well soon Buddy !!
does surgery make it bigger?
Why so surgery?
Karma’s a beeatch after that cheap shot he took at Berry last year…
Well, at least this explains why he skipped voluntary workouts.
I (like many others) wish he had it done earlier, but his doctors may have asked him to take a few months to see how it heals naturally. I have to assume his doctors are doing literally everything they can to keep him healthy.
Id do the same and pull a Peyton. Sign a contract then have surgery.
Ya gotta love the spin job by his agent classifying the surgery as “extremely minor”. Riiiiiiiiight.