We interrupt our normal programming for a Boarding House Bulletin. We have learned that OSU quarterback Terrelle Pryor may have had a surgical procedure to repair damage in his knee.
Terrelle Pryor
It is the knee that could determine the 2010 national championship.
Late Tuesday, we learned that OSU quarterback Terrelle Pryor had arthroscopic surgery on the torn posterior cruciate ligament that has troubled him since he was injured in the late-October game against New Mexico State.
No one at Ohio State has confirmed the procedure, perhaps as a concession to student/patient privacy issues. But our sources maintain that Pryor underwent the outpatient surgical procedure at OSU East Medical Center with team orthopedic surgeon Dr. Chris Kaeding performing the surgery.
Apparently, it was a minor procedure to clean up scar tissue around the tear. Typically, a PCL tear does not require surgery primarily because it is in a place that is difficult to reach.
This all makes sense, though. Pryor was quoted in mid-January saying that rest had not helped the knee and he was still experiencing pain. Last week on signing day, Jim Tressel echoed the same sentiments that Pryor was not quite back to 100 percent for winter conditioning.
“It’s just something that he’s going to have to … it’s going to heal up,” Tressel said last Wednesday.
Quarterbacks coach Nick Siciliano added, “He tells me the knee hurts. He tells me sometimes it feels better. I think it’s just a growning pain of going through something.”
Spring practice starts April 1 and it seems that Pryor and the medical staff decided a clean-up procedure would speed up that healing process.
Update at 4 p.m.: Ohio State has confirmed that Pryor underwent "a routine arthroscopic procedure." According to that source, the good news is everything checked out fine and he should make a quick recovery.
