Former Patriots Star Issues Scary Warning For Jayson Tatum Amid Injury

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The Boston Celtics will take on the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 7 on Saturday night, and former New England Patriots Super Bowl Champion Damien Woody issued a warning for Jayson Tatum.

Tatum exited Game 6 early with reported calf tightness and did not play in the fourth quarter. He was seen with a wrap on his left leg as well. It is not the same leg in which he ruptured his Achilles tendon last year. However, Woody warned that Tatum could be at risk of another significant leg injury if he tries to play through a lower leg injury in his left leg.

“I think you gotta be very careful if you’re Jayson Tatum…I’ve experienced something like this," Woody said on ESPN's "Get Up" Friday. "I had a lower leg injury, my calf, and I had surgery on it. I came back earlier than I should have. The game I came back, it was a playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts, and I tore my Achilles. All because I was overcompensating for the prior injury that I had. I will say to Jayson Tatum, I know you're coming off the Achilles, but be very careful. Because if I'm the Philadelphia 76ers, the first thing I'm going to do is test him. I'm going to run him around a bunch of screens. That's what we do in the NFL. We get an injury report, and we see a guy injured, you know what the first thing we're going to do? We're going to see if that guy's healthy.”