One of the toughest dudes in the National Football League is Frank Ragnow, a center for the Detroit Lions. This isn’t even up for debate. Argue if you want, but no matter what route you take, you’re going to be wrong. Period. Let me provide you with an example to prove my statement. During the third week of the professional football season, Ragnow suffered a partially torn pectoral muscle that kept him on the sidelines for the team’s next game against the Seattle Seahawks. The following week was a bye — an off week where a team has no scheduled game — which provided him with another week to recover from his injury.
Lions head coach Dan Campbell made an appearance on 97.1 The Ticket’s “Costa and Jansen,” where he revealed Wednesday that Ragnow is probably going to be back on the field heading into Week 6. He then shared a story about how he found out that Ragnow was ready to get back to work and it’s hilarious. No seriously. It’s funny. Like legit funny.
“Last week, right before Seattle, I walked down there to talk to our trainer and somebody punches me against the wall,” Campbell told the hosts of the program. “And I’m not even paying attention because I’m looking at our trainer. And then I get punched again and I realize it’s Frank and he’s trying to show me that his pec is great. That’s his way of telling me, ‘Look how strong I am. It’s good, it’s healed.’ He’s in a good mindset, he’s ready and he wants to go.”
Dan Campbell said he was walking thru facility last wk when out of nowhere "someone punches me against the wall, then I get punched again and I realize that it's Frank trying to show me that his pec is great. That's his way of telling me, 'Look how strong I am, it's good.'"
— Will Burchfield (@burchie_kid) October 9, 2024
That’s definitely going to leave a mark. Poor Campbell. But hey, at least Ragnow will be back in the game and help Hulk smash the Lions’ opponents on the field, right? There are gentler ways that the coach could have been informed about the center’s full recovery, but you just need to take good news when it comes along, no matter how it might end up being delivered.