Henry Ruggs ‘feeling 100%’ after fearing ‘the worst’ about leg injury
“Barely a month after being selected at 12 overall in the draft by the Raiders, Henry Ruggs III was laid up with an injury. He suffered a puncture wound in his thigh while helping a friend move, sending a shockwave through Raider Nation about the seriousness of the injury. No one felt that shockwave more than Ruggs himself.
“‘When it happened, of course you think of the worst,’ Ruggs said over Zoom call Thursday, ‘but when I saw the doctors and things like that, they gave me a breakdown and told me I’d be back to 100% in no time and I actually being hard-headed, tried to do more than the doctors said I could do or what I should do.'”
A positive for Las Vegas this offseason as they will have their 12th overall pick for the start of training camp. Ruggs is expected to play a big part in the Raiders offense, so it would have been difficult to get him up to speed with the offense if he had to miss additional time.