RB Chris "Beanie" Wells (All B1G, All-American)

[Dryden]

What a pussy. Turf toe. Christ!

He had the benefit of the doubt before this, but seven games for turf toe is out of control.

Clearly you've never had a case of Turf Toe.

Ever since the injury in 2008, Beanie always has something keeping him out, yet rarely seems too hurt to bounce around the sidelines in sweatpants and chest bump teammates.

Plantar fasciitis, turf toe, and ankle sprains all hurt. Fine. But it's the NFL. Everybody is hurt. Beanie is never going to be 100% healthy again, even after he retires. He needs to play before front offices around the league make that decision for him.

Eddie George had multiple foot injuries, extensive turf toe damage, and high ankle sprains, yet rushed for over 10,000 yards while never missing a start. In the second half of the 2001 season he would fall down in the open field trying to cut, but he still took the ball.

There is something that separates the great ones from everybody else, and it isn't the good fortune of avoiding injury.

 

[Buckeye86]

He had the benefit of the doubt before this, but seven games for turf toe is out of control.

Ever since the injury in 2008, Beanie always has something keeping him out, yet rarely seems too hurt to bounce around the sidelines in sweatpants and chest bump teammates.

Plantar fasciitis, turf toe, and ankle sprains all hurt. Fine. But it's the NFL. Everybody is hurt. Beanie is never going to be 100% healthy again, even after he retires. He needs to play before front offices around the league make that decision for him.

Eddie George had multiple foot injuries, extensive turf toe damage, and high ankle sprains, yet rushed for over 10,000 yards while never missing a start. In the second half of the 2001 season he would fall down in the open field trying to cut, but he still took the ball.

There is something that separates the great ones from everybody else, and it isn't the good fortune of avoiding injury.

Having said all that (and I don't disagree), I am glad Beanie has made some money up to this point (similarly to Greg Oden). I hope he is investing it wisely.

 

[Buckskin86]

Arizona Cardinals' Beanie Wells itching to get back on field
by Bob McManaman - Oct. 22, 2012
azcentral sports

He isn't allowed to formally return to practice until the Cardinals' off week. And judging from his exasperation Monday by having been placed on the NFL's new injured reserve/designated to return list in the first place, it only figures for running back Beanie Wells.

He's had that kind of luck in his first four NFL seasons.

"It's so boring sitting at home and watching the games on TV," he said. "I wish I was out there. I feel like I'm ready to go right now. But I can't until they activate me, so I've just been training really hard on my own, getting ready."

In addition to recovering from off-season knee surgery, Wells suffered a severe turf-toe injury in Week 3 against the Eagles. When he was put on injured reserve, it meant he would have to skip Arizona's next seven games.

It wasn't what he wanted, even if it probably was the best thing for him.

"Heck yeah," Wells said when asked if he was upset about being placed on injured reserve. He declined to elaborate.

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Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarep...lls-itching-get-back-field.html#ixzz2A7iHj8hE

 

[Buckskin86]

The team continues to play without running back Beanie Wells. He is progressing well in rehabilitation from a toe injury, coach Ken Whisenhunt said this week. Wells can return Nov. 25. "I anticipate him starting to practice next week," Whisenhunt said.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcwest/post/_/id/80131/nfc-west-injury-situations-that-matter-77

 

[ScriptOhio]

Beanie Wells targeting Week 12 return

Arizona Cardinals running back Beanie Wells, who has been out since suffering a turf toe injury in Week 3, is on track to return in Week 12, according to reports. Adam Schefter reported early Sunday via his Twitter account that the fourth-year back was on track to return Nov. 25 against the St. Louis Rams. Wells suffered the "severe" turf toe injury against the Philadelphia Eagles and was placed on injured reserve, meaning he would miss at least seven games, meaning the earliest he could return was the Week 12 NFC West showdown with the Rams.

Entire article: http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/346374-beanie-wells-targeting-week-12-return

 

[Buckskin86]

Beanie: ?No doubt? he?ll play Nov. 25
Posted by Darren Urban on November 6, 2012

The earliest running back Beanie Wells can play coming off the injured reserve/able to return list is the Nov. 25 home game against the St. Louis Rams. Wells, who has been out with torn ligaments in his toe, said Tuesday there was ?no doubt about it? that he would play in that game.

First, Wells has to practice, and the first day he is eligible to do so is Wednesday. ?Heck yeah I?m real excited,? Wells said. ?It?s been a challenge. It?s hard to be out there and watch practice and not do anything.?

Wells must miss one more game, in Atlanta, so LaRod Stephens-Howling gets another start, backed up by William Powell and Alfonso Smith. When Wells does play again, he figures to start, but depending on his rust, the situation is likely flexible.

Wells said the knee issues that cost him the entire offseason have subsided and the knee ?feels great.? His toe ?feels good,? although he said making sure it is taped correctly seems to make a difference. Wells said it?s been difficult watching the season pass by without him and he wants to make it right. The Cardinals could certainly use his size in the backfield, where the team hasn?t been able to convert as many short-yardage and goal line opportunities has it would have liked.

Knowing he could have made a difference in those spots ?sucks,? Wells said. ?I feel if I was in there we could get something else going.? Starting with the Rams game, the Cardinals would have six games left for Wells to leave his imprint this season.

http://blog.azcardinals.com/2012/11/06/beanie-no-doubt-hell-play-nov-25/

 

[Buckskin86]

Arizona Cardinals running back Beanie Wells nearing return to field
Michael Chow/azcentral sports
By Kent Somers azcentral sports Wed Nov 7, 2012

When NFL players talk about adjusting to the speed and power of the game, they usually are referring to opposing players.

But that wasn?t the case on Wednesday with Cardinals quarterback John Skelton. Running back Beanie Wells returned to practice after missing six weeks with a severe turf toe injury, and Skelton had to adjust.

?Yeah, that was a sight for sore eyes,? Skelton said. ?We were just talking about the contradictions between the running backs that we have, with all the little guys, and then Beanie coming back. Just a big, powerful back.?

The Cardinals have tried to make do with LaRod Stephens-Howling (185 pounds), and to a far lesser extent, William Powell (207) and Alfonso Smith (208).

Wells suffered the injury in Week 3 and was placed on the injured/designated-to-return list. He became eligible to practice on Wednesday, but he can?t play in a game until Nov. 25 against the Rams.

?That?s not even the target, that?s the set date,? Wells said. ?That is the day, no doubt about it. I?ve missed seven games, something like that? I?m not missing anymore.?

Wells already has missed six games, including the five losses. After practice on Wednesday, his first since late September, Wells said he felt better than he has in more than a year.

The time off not only allowed the torn ligament in his toe area to heal, it also did wonders for his knee, he said, which was operated on last January.

?You?re going to see the vintage Beanie Wells,? he said. ?The real deal.?

Wells ran with the starters during the part of Wednesday?s practice that was on the record for reporters. The Cardinals are off now until next week, and Wells will have a little more than two weeks of practice before returning to game action.

This weekend, like many of his teammates, he plans to get away. He?s returning home to Ohio, where he has a family outing planned at a ?little shack? he bought. If the snow doesn?t melt, Wells plans to go sledding with his two kids and other members of his family.

Wells said his goal is to keep the kids from sliding into the water that?s at the base of the hill.

Given Wells? injury history, the Cardinals have to hope that everyone on the outing is safe.

?As long as it?s just his kids sledding,? Skelton said.

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/car...g-back-beanie-wells-nearing-return-field.html

 

[Buckskin86]

Beanie Wells: ?I feel like I can run all day'
By Pat Marrujo/Arizona Sports
Published: November 19, 2012

At the start of the season, the Arizona Cardinals loved what they had at running back.

With Beanie Wells and Ryan Williams in the backfield, the Cardinals were hopeful a strong rushing attack would take pressure off the passing game.

Instead, the two have spent more time on the injured list than the field.

Now after spending the last seven games on the sidelines with a toe injury, Wells is finally returning to action this week against the St. Louis Rams.

"We are going to activate Beanie this week and I expect him to play barring something happen," Whisenhunt said.

Whisenhunt thinks that Wells's return will help jumpstart the Cardinals' struggling offense.

"I sure don't anticipate it hurting. He is a 1,000 yard running back in the NFL. He is a big guy and looks good physically in practice," Whisenhunt said. "You like to think that it can help us."

Wells said that he has been practicing for two weeks now and saw a lot of action on the scout team last week against the starting defense.

"Nothing you do can simulate the game and the physically of a football game, [but] I feel like I can run all day right now," Wells said.

Last week, LaRod Stephens-Howling delivered the best performance by a Cardinals running back this season, rushing for 127 yards and a touchdown.

"He is a real shifty guy, as you see, he can take it 50, 60 yards at any given time," Wells said. "I can come here and be that power guy and wear the defenses out for him."

Just because Wells has missed so much time this season, the Ohio State alum doesn't think that he is going to be the least bit rusty or limited coming off an injury.

"I have been playing football since I was six years old. I don't think I will forget how to play at all," Wells said. "The speed is what it is, football is football no matter where you are playing it at."

http://arizonasports.com/40/1589751/Beanie-Wells-I-feel-like-I-can-run-all-day

 

[Buckskin86]

Cardinals activate RB Beanie Wells
Updated Nov 21, 2012

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP)

The Arizona Cardinals have activated Beanie Wells from the NFL's new injured/designated to return list, clearing the way for the running back to play Sunday against St. Louis.

Wells has been sidelined since sustaining a severe turf toe injury against Philadelphia in Week 3. The league's new injured/designated to return list required Wells to be inactive for eight weeks, which meant that he missed seven games. He returned to practice last week.

Wells' return will be a boost to a running game that ranks 30th out of 32 NFL teams. The time off also allowed Wells to rest his surgically repaired knee, which was still bothering him at the time of the toe injury.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/arizona-cardinals-activate-rb-beanie-wells-turf-toe-injury-112112

 

[Buckskin86]

Arizona Cardinals Beanie Wells' injury a blessing in disguise

by Kent Somers - Nov. 22, 2012
azcentral sports

Not many people who suffered a severe toe injury would say it's a "blessing," because few other body parts cause as much pain.

Yet "a blessing" is what Cardinals running back Beanie Wells calls the turf-toe injury he suffered in Week 3.

The injury forced the Cardinals to place Wells on injured reserve/designated to return.

That's a new label the NFL created this year that allows a team to bring one injured reserve player back during the same season. The player just has to miss eight weeks of the regular season.

In Wells' case, that meant sitting out seven games. He needed the time to recover from the toe injury, which involved ligament damage, but more importantly, he said, it gave his troublesome right knee more time to heal.

The injured toe felt great long ago, Wells said. It took longer for the knee to come around, but Wells said the time off has him feeling better than he has since the summer of 2011.

He played most of last season with a knee injury. That's as specific as Wells and the Cardinals have been about the injury, which likely dates back to 2010, Wells' second season.

He had arthroscopic surgery early that season, and he suffered another injury to it last season.

Wells played through it, but underwent surgery again this January. Wells hasn't revealed specifics about the surgery, but it's suspected he had microfracture. A simple "clean-out" doesn't require several months of recovery.

Wells didn't participate in any off-season workouts and missed the first three weeks of camp. The hope was that he would be fully healthy by the start of the season.

Wells now says he wasn't. He gained just 76 yards on 29 carries, a 2.6-yard average, in three games.

But Wells, if healthy, should bolster a running game that's been inconsistent at best, anemic at worst.

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Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarep...s-injury-blessing-disguise.html#ixzz2D3CLcqT0

 

[Bestbuck36]

Run hard Beanie! Take your job back with authority

 

[Bucknut24]

1st game back, 2 TD's already, noice

 

[Buckskin86]

Beanie Enjoys Return To Field
Josh Weinfuss azcardinals.com

Running back Beanie Wells celebrates one of his two touchdowns Sunday during the Cardinals' 31-17 loss to the Rams.

All week, Ken Whisenhunt wouldn?t estimate how many carries Beanie Wells would have in the running back?s first game back since Sept. 23.

It didn?t take long, however, to find out that the Cardinals wouldn?t ease Wells back into the rotation slowly.

He had seven carries during the Cardinals? first drive, capped with a 1-yard dive into the end zone. But Wells wasn?t done. He finished with 48 yards on 17 carries and showed there weren?t any lasting effects from the turf toe injury that landed Wells on Injured Reserve ? Designated to return list, which mandated he miss eight weeks.

Wells put the Cardinals ahead 14-7 in the second quarter after bouncing outside for a 12-yard touchdown, before the Cardinals lost, 31-17, to St. Louis at University of Phoenix Stadium.

?It was great to have him back,? guard Adam Snyder said. ?I think he played hard. He ran hard. He hits the line of scrimmage not like a lot of backs in this league. He hits it hard.?

Wells said his stamina wasn?t an issue.

?You definitely get tired quicker when you ain?t been out there a while, just when your adrenaline gets going and the anxiety, but it?s all right,? Wells said. ?Just got to get my football legs back.?

Wells said he felt rusty at first, but once he got that first hit, ?it was one of those feelings that, to me, is the best feeling in the world.?

?You knew that he was going to be a little bit rusty,? Whisenhunt said. ?There were a couple of runs that it didn?t seem like he had his feet underneath him because we had some holes early but he did a nice job.?

http://www.azcardinals.com/news-and...To-Field/5e84f9fe-a9b0-46b6-a3c7-0af2e2dca761

 

[Buckskin86]

RB Beanie Wells 'felt good' in first game back
By Pat Marrujo/Arizona Sports
Published: November 26, 2012

Arizona Cardinals running back Beanie Wells (26) scores a touchdown ahead of St. Louis Rams cornerback Cortland Finnegan (31) during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

After missing seven weeks with a toe injury, Arizona Cardinals running back Beanie Wells finally returned to action Sunday against the St. Louis Rams.

He carried the ball 17 times for 48 yards and was the first Cardinals player to rush for two touchdowns in a single game this season.

Despite getting so much of the workload, Wells wasn't fatigued.

"I felt good. I don't think I was winded at all," Wells said. "It was just a matter of getting my football feet back underneath me."

Cardinals head coach Ken Whisenhunt was encouraged by what he saw out of Wells.

"I think that as he gets more comfortable with the game speed, he'll be alright," Whisenhunt said. "He looked good on some of the runs."

Wells was itching to get back on the field after missing so much time.

"I haven't played in two months, so I was super excited to get back out there and sometimes I was going a little too quick," Wells said.

Whisenhunt expected this because he said Wells was "so amped up."

"There were a couple of times where he looked like he didn't have his feet underneath him," Whisenhunt said. "He broke into the second level and it looked like he was going down.

The Cardinals are set to take on the New York Jets Sunday and Wells is again expected to once again receive the bulk of the carries.

http://arizonasports.com/40/1591055/RB-Beanie-Wells-felt-good-in-first-game-back

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[Buckskin86]

Beanie wins bet with scummer and teammate, Jay Feely....