Football is dangerous. For Dolphins kicker Caleb Sturgis, kickball, more so.
According to Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald, the quadriceps injury which will keep Sturgis out until training camp was suffered during a team-sanctioned kickball game.
While many teams will go shoot paintball guns at each other or bowl or play golf or go to a movie during OTAs, nobody in Miami envisioned a harmless playground game taking away a key player for any amount of time. And that might make the team more forgiving for a guy who might have been on the hot seat anyway.
But Sturgis injured his plant leg while playing kickball —presumably he was one of the first guys picked — and won’t be able to resume activity for two or three weeks.
Neither the Dolphins nor Sturgis’s agent commented, but this much is clear — if they play dodgeball next time, quarterback Ryan Tannehill is going to be absent from school that day.
