I was going to make the obvious next post in our look at Rapids history, with #17 going to the early face of the franchise. Sadly though, actual news takes precedence. Joseph Samuelson tweeted a post by Kortne Ford on his Instagram that showed Ford undergoing yet another knee surgery.
Obviously there's been no official announcement, as we have no idea how serious this is, but the signs aren't good. He came into preseason with talk about being ready for the regular season, yet it quickly became obvious from his lack of preseason game time that something wasn't right. If they waited until now to do surgery instead of taking advantage of the last three months of down time its a good sign that it wasn't the first choice of how to deal with the issue.
Unfortunately, I think the Rapids have to move forward under the assumption that Ford will not play any more meaningful minutes for the club. With this surgery the odds of him being available for whatever the rest of the 2020 season turns ot to look like is unlikely, and certainly he's not going to have a chance to pus ahead of Abubakar, Moor, and Trusty for playing time. Going into 2021 he'll be two and a half years removed from his last regular playing time, and the loss of improvement between 22.5 and 25 years old is huge.
Maybe a miracle happens, I know every Rapids fan hopes so. But the Rapids can't expect a miracle, they have to plan as if they won't get one.
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
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