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Steve Smith, despite Panthers' reliance on DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart, is a critical component to Carolina's success. Him getting hurt, and thus not getting on the same page with quarterbacks Matt Moore and/or Jimmy Clausen early in the season, would be seriously detrimental thing.A thing that, according to Chris Mortensen, happened Sunday.
Mort tweeted that Smith broke his left arm playing flag football with kids and underwent surgery to insert a small plate and screws. It's the same arm that Smith broke last year.
The potential good news (if there is any) is that Smith was reportedly playing with the kids at his football camp -- on Father's Day no less -- and not, you know, riding a motorcycle at high speeds around Charlotte. Or something equally dumb that professional athletes occasionally find themselves doing.
However, Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio's hearing that Smith wasn't playing in a youth camp scrimmage and that, instead, he was playing the championship game of an adult flag football league.
Derrick Fox, Smith's agent, told Florio, "I don't know," when asked which it was, but, quite obviously, if Smith was playing in a rec league game, this situation is a lot more unnerving for the Panthers and their fans.
So, maybe the only good news is that Smith isn't expected to miss any time during the season, and because it's not a shattered leg, he can actually participate in workouts (although he's expected to miss the start of training camp) and get ready to play in 2010.
But when you add this with Thomas Davis' devastating ACL tear a few weeks ago, it becomes pretty clear pretty early that there are some bad omens surrounding the 2010 rendition of the Panthers. Then again, what's a Panthers preseason without some sort of semi-disastrous news surrounding the wide receiver? At least this time he's not punching anyone.
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