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DeVier Posey: ?I Think I?m Ready?
By DEEPI SIDHU, SportsRadio 610
June 3, 2013
HOUSTON (CBS Houston) ? Texans wide receiver DeVier Posey is excited to begin the next stage of his rehabilitation next week following the end of OTAs.
?I should be out on the field next week doing drills and getting acclimated to the heat and getting my foot on that solid ground again, getting used to that gravity. I?m looking forward to it. I think I?m ready,? Posey said after OTA practice on Monday.
Being sidelined with an Achilles injury from January, Posey is not expected to return until the middle of the 2013 season. Lately, he has kept himself busy studying not only his parts of the playbook, but those of the other receivers as well. Posey has also focused on strengthening his upper body and core while being limited with his foot.
?Those are the two components, getting the muscle memory back and the strength back and having the mental strength to know it?s fixed,? Posey said. ?The idea is to always come back stronger and better. That?s just what I?m trying to do.?
Posey tore his left Achilles tendon in January 13 during the Texans? playoff loss in New England. His long road to recovery, along with the loss of veteran receiver Kevin Walter, may have been the catalyst to the team drafting wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins in the first round. Posey was emerging as Texans? third receiver last season and possibly number-two for 2013 until his injury in the playoffs. The second-year receiver will have to wait until the season is underway to make that push.
?These next three months are the most important part of my rehab because of the field work and the strengthening part. As pain progresses and things progress, I?ll be able to do more and more. I?m a pretty tough guy; I can take pain so we?ll try to get out here as soon as possible.
Cris Carter On DeVier Posey?s Return
By DEEPI SIDHU, SportsRadio 610
July 3, 2013
(credit: Bob Levey/Getty Images)
HOUSTON (CBS Houston) - Wide receiver DeVier Posey may not like what former NFL wide receiver and ESPN analyst Cris Carter thinks of his Achilles injury. Both Posey and San Francisco?s Michael Crabtree are recovering from surgery for a torn Achilles tendon. Crabtree, who underwent surgery just six weeks ago, began his rehab this week.
?I believe it?s going to take a little more time for these guys to come back and I look for them to get healthy around November, beginning of December, and try to make that last playoff push. I?d be very, very careful with them in September and October, making sure I don?t have some type of setback on that Achilles,? Carter said on SportsRadio 610′s MaD Radio on Wednesday.
Posey may still start the 2013 NFL season on the Physically Unable to Perform list but he was hoping to return as early as September or October. Posey is undergoing rehabilitation but was able to participate in some drills off-field during OTAs.
Posey tore his left Achilles tendon on January 13 during the Texans? playoff loss in New England. Posey was emerging as Texans? third receiver last season and possibly number-two for 2013 until his injury in the playoffs. The second-year receiver will have to wait until the season is underway to make that push.
?The Achilles thing is difficult,? said Carter. ?The wide receiver, everything starts with an explosion and elongated stance and that?s pressure on the Achilles. It?s the same thing for Crabtree in San Francisco. We saw Suggs last year rush himself back but they are playing a different position.?
DeVier Posey?s status unclear on eve of training camp
Posted on July 25, 2013
by Dale Robertson
Second-year receiver DeVier Posey, who?s recovering from a torn Achilles tendon suffered in the season-ending playoff loss to the Patriots last January, said he has ?no idea? if he?s going on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list before practice begins Friday morning.
?That?s an upstairs call,? Posey said. ?I haven?t been told anything yet.?
Players can come off the preseason PUP at any time, so the decision isn?t crucial to the upcoming season for Posey, who was a third-round draft choice in 2012.
?I?m right where I thought I?d be,? he said. ?It?s a six- to nine-month rehab and we just passed six months. I?m trying to take these (next) four to six weeks and fine tune things, to get that one-leg explosion and make sure my cuts are better than ever. I?m trying to take my time, trying to go about it the smartest way, to prepare for a career and not just a game.?
But he says he has been trying ?to push the envelope a little? to get back on the field.
?I just love football,? Posey said. ?I miss it. I want to play as soon as possible. It?s my profession. It?s what I wanted to do for a very long time and things were going well toward the end of (last) season. I saw what potential I have at this level. I want to be able to tap back into that (and) make the second-year jump. I don?t want to be excluded (because of his injury). I want to make it mentally and physically.?
Posey caught six passes for 87 yards in 11 games as a rookie.
