Arrelious Benn’s Hard Rehab About To Pay Off

August 27th, 2011

Last year wide receiver Arrelious Benn had a slow start. Understandable, coming from one of those garbage high school spread-option offenses at Illinois.

Just when Benn turned the corner and was making an impact, he blows out a knee.

During his rehab, laid up, unable to walk yet much less run, what did Benn do? He had his brother throw him passes when he couldn’t even get on his feet so he could work out in some manner.

That’s the word from Woody Cummings of the Tampa Tribune.

He was off the couch and back on a football field near his Washington D.C. home sooner than doctors and team trainers thought; sooner, perhaps, than they wanted.

“I was doing things during the lockout that I wouldn’t tell the trainers I was doing,” Benn said. “I did a lot of little things on my own just to keep my body going and keep it right.”

The results are visible. The 6-foot-2, 220-pound Benn is thicker through the chest and shoulders than a year ago and running so well [Bucs wide receivers coach Eric] Yarber often can’t tell which knee was injured. For the record, it was the left.

Joe thinks that Benn coming Back healthy is a very big thing for Josh Freeman and the Bucs. With Mike Williams, Kellen Winslow, Dezmon Briscoe, Michael Spurlock and Benn, that gives Freeman all sorts of dangerous toys to play with.

3 Responses to “Arrelious Benn’s Hard Rehab About To Pay Off”

  1. BecklesHeartsRuud Says:

    “The results are visible. The 6-foot-2, 220-pound Benn is thicker through the chest and shoulders than a year ago ”

    FOR REALS!!! This guy was already thicker through the chest last year than just about any other reciever in the league! Dude better quit hittin the weights so hard or he might end up having to move to linebacker!

  2. McBuc Says:

    He is going to havr fun going against Vontae Davis…best friends since they were six!

  3. TopDoggie Says:

    We are going to the SuperBowl. I stoked go Bucs.