‘Write Your Own Destiny’: Cam Akers’s Remarkable Return To The Rams
The Lead
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🗓️ 20 January 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On Monday night, in the Rams’ playoff win over the Cardinals, running back Cam Akers came up just short of 100 yards from scrimmage, which wouldn’t register as that remarkable of a feat — except that Akers wasn’t supposed to be playing in that game at all. Today, The Athletic’s Jourdan Rodrigue takes us behind the scenes of Akers’s incredible comeback, returning from one of the most devastating injuries in sports — a torn Achilles tendon — in just five and a half months. Plus, what to expect when the Rams take on Tom Brady and the reigning Super Bowl champs this weekend.
Read Jourdan Rodrigue’s full story about Cam Akers: https://theathletic.com/3069918/2022/01/17/write-your-own-destiny-inside-cam-akers-remarkable-return-to-rams-5-1-2-months-after-achilles-tear/?source=theleadpodcast
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| 0:46.0 | Coming out of the Rams Backfield where LA runny back cam acres out for the season with a torn Achilles |
| 0:59.0 | CBS confirming that news that it happened during a workout and it comes with training camp |
| 1:04.0 | not even officially gunning underway yet acres during his rookie season. |
| 1:07.0 | That was the word out of LA over the summer that the Rams had lost cam makers, a breakout player as a rookie |
| 1:14.0 | before his second season had even begun. |
| 1:17.0 | But now against all odds, cam acres is back. |
| 1:21.0 | It's hard to believe that typically is a year recovery for a running back to have torn as Achilles tendon in July |
| 1:31.0 | and here we are in January and he's on the field playing this season pretty remarkable. |
| 1:37.0 | Today the athletics Jordan Rodriguez takes us behind the scenes of acres incredible comeback. |
| 1:43.0 | Returning from one of the most devastating injuries in sports in just five and a half months. |
| 1:50.0 | Not only have I never seen a comeback from an injury of this magnitude, a full Achilles tear in this amount of time, |
| 1:57.0 | it has never been done before and it really does signal I think a change in what we know about this process. |
| 2:06.0 | Plus what to expect when acres and the Rams head to Tampa to take on Tom Brady and the reigning Super Bowl champs this week. |
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