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Ridley, who also tore his ACL once in college, ought to at least be able to provide some advice and Cheap Jerseys Online encouragement for Cook as he gets to know his new teammate in between cram sessions with offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur's playbook.
For now, Ridley will try to catch up while Murray carries the load and McKinnon adds his unique skills to the mix. Murray has seen only limited action to date, because of ankle surgery in March.
So here he is at age 28, past the prime years at this wearing position, hoping to catch on and carve out a late-career niche with another new team.
Then came the fateful game on Oct. 12, 2014, four weeks after he rushed for 101 yards and a touchdown on 25 carries against coach Mike Zimmer and the Vikings,Cheap Jerseys, when his right knee buckled, resulting in ACL and MCL tears.
Rookie star Dalvin Cook went down with a torn China Jerseys Wholesale.cheapchinanfljerseys.us/]Jerseys NFL Wholesale[/url] ACL in his left knee , an injury that Ridley knows all too well.
"I was just down there really trying to hold on and stay in shape to the best of my abilities," Ridley said, "and just hoping that that call came through and the door would swing open somewhere."
"It's always good when you have a Pro Bowler coming in. He's really starting to come into his own," tight end Kyle Rudolph said. "Obviously he missed a lot this offseason with the injury, but he's had time to get comfortable, and he's ready to roll."
How about now, almost three years later?
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Stevan Ridley was at home in Mississippi, spending time with family and preparing for hunting season, when the Minnesota Vikings invited him this week to work out for their unexpected opening at running back.
"It's been tough, man. It's been a lot of ups and downs, a lot of different stops. A lot of hoping and praying that things work out," Ridley said .
"Honestly,Wholesale MLB Jerseys 2018, I really don't even feel it. A lot of times I refer to Jerseys NFL Wholesale it as my bad knee, but truly it's really your stronger leg," Ridley said. "If you really follow the process or you rehab the way you're supposed to, you don't really notice it."
The opening came on Sunday,Wholesale Jerseys, when Cook tried to cut to dodge a Detroit defender and dash further up the field . He fumbled the ball and crumpled to the turf, his first NFL season reduced to just a tease with 444 total yards and two touchdowns in four games.
He joined the New York Jets in 2015 and appeared in one game with the Atlanta Falcons last season. Ridley was in training camp with Denver this year,Jerseys From China, but the Broncos released him during the final cuts before the regular season.
"It's a challenge going forward, and you have to really just prepare yourself and know that there's going to be days that it's terrible, but you can get through it, you can push through it," Ridley said.
Ridley was a third-round draft pick by New England out of LSU in 2011. He has 2,914 yards on 688 carries for three teams, for an average of 4.2 yards per attempt. He rushed for 1,Wholesale Stitched Jerseys,263 yards and 12 touchdowns for the Patriots in 2012.
It's also the type of adverse and sudden development that Ridley was resigned to watching for around the league, as a free agent without a team.
"I've got a lot to learn in a little bit of time," Ridley said. "Get in here and try to find a role with the team and help these guys contribute."
"You never really know what's going to be the last play or when's going to be the next play. So this call came unexpected and the stop before this was kind of unexpected, so being in the NFL you really never know."
The Vikings have experience and skill-set variety with Latavius Murray and Jerick McKinnon, but they'll likely need more than those two to help share the load in Cook's absence. They worked out Ridley on Wednesday Cheap Jerseys Online and signed him on Thursday, when they placed Cook on injured reserve. |
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