Fred Warner on recovering from his devastating ankle injury and Kyle Van Noy talks upcoming free agency
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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On the latest Off the Edge with Cam Jordan podcast, four-time All Pro linebacker Fred Warner explains how he recovered so quickly from his October ankle fracture and what it’s like being a new dad.
Then Ravens linebacker, Kyle Van Noy, sits down with Cam to discuss his upcoming free agency and the toughest workouts he's faced during training camp.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:11.4 | Welcome to Off the Edge, the podcast. |
| 0:13.8 | Just another beautiful day with another great player. |
| 0:17.1 | Talk about a little bit of football. |
| 0:18.4 | We're talking about a guy who's been an all-pro bowler. |
| 0:20.7 | Fred Warner, with the resume you've had over the Niners. I mean, you're headed towards legendary. Considering the injury that you had this year, you still had a push to make it to the playoffs. That's right. Saw clips of you out there coming downhill. I said, well, I said, maybe some people would just have Wolverine blood in them. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah. Four-time pro bowler and all pro. I mean, what was the difference in terms of your rehab that you made a push to make it back to the game? Well, the crazy part is, right, and I've talked about it, is when you break your ankle |
| 0:54.8 | in half and you have your foot face in the wrong way, the trainers aren't immediately, |
| 0:59.6 | and the doctors aren't immediately coming to you like, hey, let's see how fast we can get |
| 1:02.7 | you back. |
| 1:03.1 | Right. |
| 1:03.4 | The conversation is like, bro, am I ever going to play football again? |
| 1:05.9 | That was the conversation. |
| 1:07.2 | So, you know, they did the surgery. |
| 1:09.8 | In October. It wasn't like, it was like August |
| 1:12.0 | training camp. No, no, no, no. This is only a couple months ago that this all occurred, right? So we get the surgery done and you have six weeks non-weight bearing on a scooter. You don't change that. And then you get to get going and being back on your feet and get into your rehab process. And as I'm getting back going doing rehab, they're like, oh, shoot, like this guy's moving pretty good. |
| 1:28.4 | He's progressing quick. |
| 1:29.7 | And then my head trainer came to me. |
| 1:31.2 | He's like, oh, shoot, like this guy's moving |
| 1:27.7 | pretty good. |
| 1:28.3 | He's progressing quick. |
| 1:43.4 | And then my head trainer came to me. He's like, hey, Fred, are you mentally prepared to go and try and get ready for the playoff? We'll have to alter your rehab a little bit to expedite the process to get you there. But are you mentally ready for that? And I was like, absolutely. I'm mentally ready, man, let's go. |
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