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Browns LB Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah had a heart issue

Anakim : 5/3/2021 5:34 pm
Adam Schefter

Notre Dame LB Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah had a heart issue that came up late in the process and was a concern for most teams, which is why he fell out of the first round and to second round and pick No. 52 with Cleveland, per sources. Doctors ultimately cleared Owusu-Koramoah but it did contribute to him going later than expected.
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SFGFNCGiantsFan : 5/3/2021 5:36 pm : link
Jeez. Hope he is alright going forward.
i bet its covid related.  
Platos : 5/3/2021 5:42 pm : link
even if he didn't get covid, young people are having more and more heart problems this year from stress/anxiety in this covid hell.
How  
Eric from BBI : Admin : 5/3/2021 5:53 pm : link
bad does it have to be for them to release a 2nd round pick?! Wow.
RE: i bet its covid related.  
Eric from BBI : Admin : 5/3/2021 5:55 pm : link
In comment 15252084 Platos said:
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even if he didn't get covid, young people are having more and more heart problems this year from stress/anxiety in this covid hell.


Usually it would be a pre-existing/genetic condition.

But there is definitely a COVID-related impact here. The Browns couldn't do a medical exam on him before the draft.
RE: How  
ryanmkeane : 5/3/2021 6:22 pm : link
In comment 15252087 Eric from BBI said:
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bad does it have to be for them to release a 2nd round pick?! Wow.

Was he released? I don’t see that..
Release?  
kelsto811 : 5/3/2021 6:25 pm : link
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He wasn't released  
PwndPapi : 5/3/2021 6:25 pm : link
They traded up to select him. They're not releasing him.
My bad  
Eric from BBI : Admin : 5/3/2021 6:26 pm : link
I thought they released him.
Didn't Kwity Paye have something similar?  
TheMick7 : 5/3/2021 7:14 pm : link
Seems the medicals on these guys was somewhat haywire! I'm glad they reported the supposed knee problem with Ojulari so that he fell to pick #50. Once I saw Dr. Andrews said he knee was strong,that was all I needed to know!
Lots of cardiovascular things happen  
Bob from Massachusetts : 5/3/2021 8:39 pm : link
with young athletes. The most common thing is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which is somewhat of a concern. That guy that the Wash team took had an abnormal echocardiogram that was probably mis-read as that. Sometimes they have atrial fibrillation, which is a mostly benign arrhythmia. Sometimes they have Wolf-Parkinson-White syndrome, which leads to mostly (but not always) benign arrhythmias. Sometimes they have long QT syndrome, an abnormal ECG that can lead to dangerous arrhythmias. Pete Maravich, who many of you will remember, I think had a dilated cardiomyopathy. Reggie Lewis was suspected of having a cocaine-induced cardiomyopathy, but that was very controversial.

So my point (and yes I am a cardiologist) is that there's a lot of stuff causes suspicion of cardiac problems, some are benign, some are mostly benign but not always, some are dangerous and lead to the end of career. Without knowing the details, it's really hard to figure out. So you can speculate if you want, but none of us know about this sh-t.
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