UGA’s Sturdivant tears ACL in right knee
For the third time in his college football career, Georgia offensive tackle Trinton Sturdivant has suffered a major knee injury.
Sturdivant
Sturdivant, who twice previously tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, sustained the same injury to his right knee during Saturday’s closed scrimmage in Sanford Stadium, UGA said Sunday after diagnostic tests.
Sturdivant will undergo surgery to repair the ACL “sometime this week” and is expected to conduct his rehabilitation at UGA, according to assistant athletic director for sports medicine Ron Courson.
Sturdivant would be a fifth-year senior in the fall, and Georgia did not say if the latest injury will cost him the season or end his college football career, deferring those topics until after the surgery.
However, based on the rehabilitation time required from his two previous knee surgeries, a return in the 2011 season would be unlikely. According to mayoclinic.com, athletes who successfully rehab from ACL surgery “often can return to their sports after six to 12 months.”
If Sturdivant misses the 2011 season, he conceivably could petition the NCAA for a sixth year of eligibility to play in 2012. Student-athletes who miss two or more seasons because of injury sometimes are allowed a sixth year.
Sturdivant was a freshman All-American in 2007, when he started all 13 games for the Bulldogs at left tackle, but he missed the entire 2008 season after tearing the ACL and two other ligaments in his left knee during a preseason scrimmage. He returned to start the opening game of the 2009 season but again tore the left ACL in that game and missed the remainder of the season. He fought back to play last season, appearing in 12 games and starting seven at left tackle.
Sturdivant considered entering the NFL draft this year but “came to the conclusion it’d be best for me to stay here,” he said in a January interview. One reason, he said at the time, was “to make the GMs in the NFL feel more comfortable about drafting someone with two ACL [surgeries].”
Sturdivant and converted guard Cordy Glenn had been alternating between left and right tackles during spring practice. Other options at tackle include A.J. Harmon, Austin Long, Kolton Houston and Brent Benedict. Or another player, perhaps Kenarious Gates or Justin Anderson, could be shifted from guard.
– Tim Tucker, AJC
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271 comments Add your comment
Ryan
April 10th, 2011
8:58 pm
Evan as a Gator it makes me sick to hear this. I rarely feel sorry for Dawg but man that’s tough news. I can’t image he will be able to make it back but I would love to see him on the field in 2012. Best of luck to this young man.
Bawbie
April 10th, 2011
8:59 pm
FIRE DAVE PERNO!!!!!! Diamond dawgs got pummelled once again.
NCAA
April 10th, 2011
9:02 pm
Nice pic of the Kid above and Sad news. The next question is how did he get the money to pay for the ear bling?
JDawg
April 10th, 2011
9:04 pm
DS. Whatever. That has nothing to do with where you started your rant. It isn’t about Trenton and what he has to live with, it’s about you, and your assenine criticism of him and his efforts. I stand by my first post, and assert that you have spent the vast majority of your life accepting the fact that you are surrounded by a majority of people who are superior to you. Good luck, you are going to need it.
Delta Stewardess
April 10th, 2011
9:04 pm
Look we are a Great Girls College with a football team. The Girls are the majority and the best of the CHAMPIONS and STUDENTS. You men are good for very little at UGA.
FOI
April 10th, 2011
9:09 pm
WHY wasnt this known yesterday?
Troll Power Ratings
April 10th, 2011
9:14 pm
Delta Stewd: Congrats, you are hands down the winner of the coveted Thread Troll Award. We don’t even have to let the thread mature. Oh, and thanks for caring.
TROTTINGHOME
April 10th, 2011
9:16 pm
You got to have a pair to go out there after 2 times.
Louie Kablooie
April 10th, 2011
9:17 pm
“Anterior cruciate ligament injury is the most common knee ligament injury, especially in athletes. Lateral rotational movements in sports like these are what cause the ACL to strain or tear. Strains can sometimes be fixed through physical therapy and MUSCLE strengthening.” Thanks UGA 05. Sorry that you are one of the above mentioned.
Old Tech Dude
April 10th, 2011
9:17 pm
Get a life DS
I leave this blog for a few hours – come back and find you still here spewing drivel.
Sad life when the best you have is typing for hours on a freaking AJC blog. Sad indeed……………
Matthews Dawg
April 10th, 2011
9:18 pm
JDawg….that was fantastic! DS quit trying to defend yourselve! Each time you say something it gives Dawg fans more to fire on you about! You have to admit what JDawg quoted was outstanding! If you have NEVER played a sport in college or even high school, you may not understand! It’s a sad day for TS!! Go Dawgs
Matthews Dawg
April 10th, 2011
9:19 pm
“yourself” it should say!
UGA '05
April 10th, 2011
9:20 pm
damn, i’ve posted too many comments on here. i better get off before i turn into a fat old man with no life. and before there are any comments on this let me go ahead and beat you guys to it. “you probably already are a fat man with no life.” uh no i’m sorry i’m 18 with a life, but thanks for the concern. “too late” uh yeah nice one. okay if you have any others please feel free. i’ll see them tomorrow.
NJ Dawg
April 10th, 2011
9:21 pm
Terrible news for Sturdivant, and at this point it’s hard not to imagine that his career’s over. I don’t think an NFL team is going to take a chance on someone who’s blown out his ACL not once, but THREE times in college. It looks like his body just isn’t able to handle all that extra weight and the workload that being an o-lineman requires.
I hope he’s prepared his fallback option–a college degree!–and I wish him the best of luck in whatever he does, even if (especially if!) suiting up for the Dawgs again is in his plans.
UGA '05
April 10th, 2011
9:23 pm
damn it louie. i was just getting off then i saw your comment. i hope you weren’t being sarcastic in your comment.
Rick from Pi
April 10th, 2011
9:24 pm
Prayers are with you, NUPE! Get well!
UGA '05
April 10th, 2011
9:25 pm
louie kablooie must be 4 years old
Louie Kablooie
April 10th, 2011
9:25 pm
Gosh I spoke too soon if you were getting off.
UGA '05
April 10th, 2011
9:26 pm
maybe if you knew how to keep your mouth shut i would of been gone
Delta Stewardess
April 10th, 2011
9:28 pm
You would think we would have a VET student that could put in a Cow’s ACL in there to keep Trinton alive and playing for just 12 more games. Well, the Vet students and teachers can’t even keep an Uga alive for 3 years now-a-days.
UGA '05
April 10th, 2011
9:29 pm
okay delta stew. no supporter of ga would talk that way about uga. you are not a dawg fan
Louie Kablooie
April 10th, 2011
9:30 pm
There could be a silver lining here. UGA may have an undersized lineman to replace Sturdivant. Thus it would help the midget to see over the line at times and complete a couple of more passes.
Delta Stewardess
April 10th, 2011
9:31 pm
Look at all the LOVE being shared between DAWG fans after a 6-7 season. Thank God USC kicked Garcia off the team. If we were to go 0-2 this blog would be written in blood.
Louie Kablooie
April 10th, 2011
9:32 pm
Garcia will be back. Mark it down.
UGA '05
April 10th, 2011
9:33 pm
delta stew you don’t even know what a true dawg fan is
UGA '05
April 10th, 2011
9:33 pm
louie, do you think Shaw is better than Garcia
Louie Kablooie
April 10th, 2011
9:35 pm
Dawgs will beat Boise but lose to USC. You heard it hear first.
Louie Kablooie
April 10th, 2011
9:36 pm
Shaw is good . Garcia can be good and better. The Evil one knows this as well.
UGA '05
April 10th, 2011
9:37 pm
who is the evil one?
Jekyll Island
April 10th, 2011
9:37 pm
The injuries keep piling up! What exactly are we doing, preparation wise, that results in so many injuries?
Louie Kablooie
April 10th, 2011
9:38 pm
SOS
UGA '05
April 10th, 2011
9:38 pm
I am mad about that too but an UGA is an UGA
Delta Stewardess
April 10th, 2011
9:39 pm
it is Uga not UGA.
UGA '05
April 10th, 2011
9:39 pm
i like shaw. got to play against him while he was at flowery branch.
Eat and Tweet
April 10th, 2011
9:40 pm
How is Thomas Browns picture meals program doing? Was Studivant too big for his frame?
UGA '05
April 10th, 2011
9:40 pm
it’s Uga if you wanna get technical. Thats like saying it’s Bob not BOB. I can caps lock a name right?
Bawbie
April 10th, 2011
9:42 pm
FIRE DAVE PERNO!
Delta Stewardess
April 10th, 2011
9:43 pm
05
How did you play against Shaw, Connor or Jaybo? Jaybo is in his 4th year and Connor is in his 2nd year but you graduated UGA in 05? How is that possible?
Inlet Dawg
April 10th, 2011
9:44 pm
Thank you for all your effort,from someone that has had that injury stay down.
Cali Dawg
April 10th, 2011
9:44 pm
Delta Stewardess AKA: ValuJet Stewardess. I hope you find someone in your life who gives you some attention. Your comments are consistently lower than the bottom of the swamp.
UGA '05
April 10th, 2011
9:45 pm
just cause it says ‘05 doesnt mean i graduated then. that was my favorite year as a dawg fan. i graduated a year ago. Connor and i are the same age.
Delta Stewardess
April 10th, 2011
9:47 pm
OK, Most people use the number to represent the year they GRADUATE. I understand your math now. Sorry.
Delta Stewardess
April 10th, 2011
9:49 pm
So are you even a UGA student?
Wtf
April 10th, 2011
9:49 pm
Speechless
UGA '05
April 10th, 2011
9:49 pm
lol it’s okay my name is misleading.
UGA '05
April 10th, 2011
9:51 pm
no. i didn’t have a good enough gpa
Louie Kablooie
April 10th, 2011
9:52 pm
‘05….. What position did you play?
Dumb Jean shorts
April 10th, 2011
9:53 pm
Your a stewardess………???……….hahahahahahahahahahahahahah! Now that is funny.
UGA '05
April 10th, 2011
9:54 pm
OLB
Delta Stewardess
April 10th, 2011
9:55 pm
Well, the HOPE has loaded all the colleges in Ga with students. Are you going to school and using HOPE as long as it lasts?