Washington Redskins: Why Chase Minnifield Will Be the Steal of 2012

June 16, 2012   ·   Aidan Reynolds   ·   Jump to comments

Knee injuries are among the most debilitating, especially for a football player. So much is required of an athlete's knees as they attempt to put themselves ahead of the competition.
Chase Minnifield knows this as well as anybody.
It's understandable that he wanted to run the 40 at his pro day. He needed to show the watching world that he had fully recovered from his microfracture surgery and could make an effective contribution to an NFL team in his rookie year.
However, his knee had other ideas, and his pace—he boasted a 4.4 time in his junior year—simply was not there. He limped in at 4.63 and promptly fell out of the draft.
Speaking to Garrison Cole at the Washington Post, Jim Haslett was less understanding: “He should’ve never ran the 40," Haslett said. "We were happy to get him as an undrafted rookie.”
The second part of that quote may have been said with a kind of selfish glee, but the first part rings completely true. Minni...

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