The truth about controversial sidelining of exciting Titans defender revealed by sports medicine expert on ACL recovery details

The truth about the controversial touch of the defender of fascinating titans revealed by the expert in sports medicine on the ACL recovery details appeared originally on A to Z Sports.

Last week, the Tennessee Titans struck Atlanta for a pair of joint practices and their second pre-season match of the season. It was a fascinating week of useful work and the fighter developments from the insightful list. But a person we have learned nothing again was the recruit of Tennessee du Tennessee. This is because S Kevin Winston Jr. was only in street clothes.

The week before hitting the road for their 10-day pre-season road trip, the Titans practiced five days out of six, fully padded. Winston was seen by leaving the training field this Sunday (August 3) with coaches, and has not returned to the practice field since. Head coach Brian Callahan maintained his absence was pain management and the general return of ACL’s repair, and he should be back this week.

This attracted many side and media side looks. On the surface, it is easy for that to feel the fish like many situations of offseason injury sometimes become. It is not above the FIB NFL teams or lying on things like this from time to time, and the recent events of the Titans (like the LCA of Treylon Burks, or the scope of the knee of the Jarius Sneed) left fans of this slow team to trust.

I did excavations on this situation, both on the side of the Titans as on the side of the sports medicine of things. First of all, let me repeat what I said last week on X: it is not so deep on it. Winston returns from an ACL. Pushing through pain or strains of all kinds with major muscles surrounding the knee is the way you develop chronic secondary problems. He’s a super exciting young player, but they don’t need him right away this season. It is really out of an abundance of prudence.

Now that does not mean that he did not have minor muscle tension or something of this nature on this leg. But the main driver sitting in the past two weeks was the prudence of recovery of the LCA.

I also had the opportunity to speak with Dave Kempfert, director of rehabilitation services to the Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee. A large part of what to say about ACL Recovery is almost perfectly aligned with what I discovered from those who know Winston, and its medical expertise is what we should all support ourselves to understand how these situations work. So do not take the floor of internet at random for that (including me), take it instead:

Come back to play a tear ACL

Let’s go back for a moment. Winston tore his ACL on September 7, 2024. Penn State played Bowling Green. In this spirit, I started by asking Kempfert to a general overview of the chronology of return to physical activity for a tear of the LCA.

“Now, when we are talking about resumption of speed and packaging, form or contact of the NFL, and you arrive at this brand of five to seven months, you are really considering a return to advanced racing and a sporting in addition to the force and the work of agility.”

Friday March 28. It was an impressive unofficial duration of 4.45-4.50, only 6 months and 21 days removed from the tear.

“As you start at seven to nine months, you are looking for more controlled contact and the return to preparation for reading. You therefore really increase your concentration on responsiveness and not only the activity planned at this stage, and progressively progress in contact. And then your return to sports calendars is generally between degrees of new to Twelve. And of course, there is no kitchen book.

The day Winston left training in the training camp was a bit shy from the 11 month bar. The opening day will be exactly a year from its tear. Everything about its recovery is follow -up with what Kempfert has set up here. So what are the biggest concerns or risks at the very end of the recovery process?

“Obviously, the greatest thing in the minds of people from the start is the re-blue effort, for your packaging, to the quantity of strength and power that you have formed in the last nine months of rehabilitation. »»

It is also related stress on the rest of the body in the affected area, explained Kempfert:

“You also do not want to exercise unnecessary stress on the adjacent joints, so in particular the joints above and below the knee when we talk about an LCA. We are talking about ankle problems, hip problems, low back problems, these types of things.”

So what are you looking for to stop it, as the titans did with Winston earlier this month?

“Big things would be strong pain, a rapid increase in swelling, especially if it is associated with a decrease in the amplitude of motion – functioning, pain, this type of thing. But you also want to just look at the management of the athlete correctly. You want to make sure you are increasing gradually. Supervising pain too.

All this is in accordance with my understanding of Winston’s rest and recovery, and it is an excellent overview in the future for any resumption of the LCA in the NFL.

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This story was initially reported by A in Z Sports on August 17, 2025, where it appeared for the first time.