Wonders if cleats caused injury? Kirk Cousins exposes a gruesome scar: “Brian O’Neill had tore his Achilles the previous year at Lambeau wearing the screw-ins.”
Maybe Kirk Cousins’ right leg’s Achilles tendon wouldn’t have ruptured on October 29, 2023, if he had been wearing regular football cleats.
After recovering for over three months from the season-ending injury, Cousins said on Thursday that he was wondering whether the spikes he was wearing had anything to do with the ailment when he appeared with Pat McAfee in Las Vegas for the Super Bowl.
Cousins said to former Packers linebacker and McAfee co-host A.J. Hawk, “We always wear the long cleats at Lambeau, and I just wonder,” adding that he donned longer, screw-in spikes for Minnesota’s game versus Green Bay at Lambeau Field.
“We decided that everyone needed to play the game this year, no exceptions, after a number of slip-ups in January the year before. Additionally, the previous year at Lambeau Stadium while wearing screw-ins, Vikings right tackle Brian O’Neill tore his Achilles. He tore his Achilles tendon the first time he wore them. I could list seventeen more things that raise similar questions, so I’m just wondering.”
According to his cousins, who also showed off a painful scar from the procedure, he won’t likely wear longer spikes in the future.
