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Bengals WR Marvin Jones has no limitations with ankle

 

CINCINNATI -- For the better part of two months, Cincinnati Bengals receiver Marvin Jones has had "no limitations" as it pertains to the ankle he injured last year.

He told reporters Monday that video that surfaced at the start of February showing him running and cutting on the sand at a Southern California beach was his way of letting the football universe know he had returned to his old self.  "It's just a way of showing everybody that I'm back and that I'm working and stuff like that, and that the ankle is fine," Jones said.

The fourth-year wideout missed all of the 2014 season after trying to fight through an ankle issue first suffered while working out that March, several weeks before the start of that year's organized offseason workout period. His desire to compete through the injury may have caused an injury on the other leg, as he broke a bone in that foot trying to overcompensate for the bum ankle on the other leg. Weeks later, as he attempted a mid-season, post-broken foot return, Jones experienced another ankle issue, causing him to just sit out the entire season.

Jones feels like his body is at 100 percent, but he won't know for certain until he starts regularly running routes and catching passes at full speed.

"We'll see when I get out there, but I can do everything that I did before," Jones said. "There's no problems, there's no limitations."

Jones had two surgeries last fall, one to his foot and the other to his ankle. The foot surgery set screws to help heal the break. The ankle procedure cleared out bone chips that had gotten loose as a result of the prior injury there. He's now about seven months past that procedure.

"I'm not going to say I don't feel it, of course I do feel it," Jones said. "But I can do everything for as long as I want."

Some of what he's done has included running routes and receiving. Sometime just before he returned to Cincinnati in early March, Jones caught passes one morning with quarterback Andy Dalton, who was training in the area with acclaimed throwing specialist Tom House.

"He was running good," Dalton said of Jones.

Jones' training regimens for the two months he trained near his hometown of Fontana, California, began routinely at 5 a.m. PT. He worked out four days a week, taking Wednesdays off. During his training, the goal was to put his body in unstable and uncomfortable positions to hone his balance and strengthen his ankle.

Cincinnati could use the 2013 version of Jones. That's the player who helped A.J. Green set a franchise record for having multiple receivers with 10 or more touchdown receptions in a single season. That was the same player who caught 51 passes for 712 yards, and the one who the Bengals had expected last season before the injuries.

If Jones can return to his old form, he could wrest the No. 2 receiver duties from Mohamed Sanu. With other injuries sacking the position group -- like the three Green had -- Sanu went from being the No. 3 preseason option at receiver to the primary target. A healthy Jones could help the Bengals avoid a similar predicament this season.

 

 

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Even if Marvin and AJ and Sanu play out of their minds this year, the chance of resigning all 3 in the same year as they are all up is unlikely. Got to get a WR in the draft.


ESPECIALLY if they play out of their minds...

You're right. The Bengals are in a tough spot. If Jones and Sanu go off this year, it's great for 2015, but means one or the other (or even both) are gone in '16. If they DON'T go off, you can keep 'em cheap. But why would you want them?
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Even if you extend Green now, chances are you aren't going to keep Jones and Sanu, so you will  need a #2 if not a #3 if not both!!
 
IMO WR is the most important position to restock on right now.

Thats why I would go WR in rd 1 (DGB).....and if someone like say Lockett drops to rd 3 I'd snag him too.
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Even if Marvin and AJ and Sanu play out of their minds this year, the chance of resigning all 3 in the same year as they are all up is unlikely. Got to get a WR in the draft.

 

 

i don't even want them to that bad. i just want them to retain the top two (AJ and marvin jones) and we shouldn't have any problems replacing sanu. it would take an entirely different performance from him this year for me to change that opinion. i've held it (that opinion) for a long time.

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i don't even want them to that bad. i just want them to retain the top two (AJ and marvin jones) and we shouldn't have any problems replacing sanu. it would take an entirely different performance from him this year for me to change that opinion. i've held it (that opinion) for a long time.

 

 

Which means we need at the very least 1 (if not 3) WRs

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well, two legitimate ones, anyway. yeah, i'm fine with that.

 

 

Well yeah I dont want to just restock with anyone of course ;)


 

 

Not with both OT's also heading to free agency.   Though I'd be surprised if Whit doesn't stick around on a team-friendly deal.

 

 

I agree Whit will stick around, Andre you may or may not have a harder time keeping, but finding one RT vs potentially 3 WRs...

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LB is number one on my list....WR isn't very far behind though.

 

 

Yeah and I'd love to upgrade Lamur (and think his supporters are just being Homers) but most of the LB issues are depth stuff, that we can address. But yeah LB is a position we need to look at too.

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Ankle or not ... Marvin Jones just isn't that good.
 
Talent just isn't that into you bro.
 
Now draft DGB.
 
Hell, get Funchess too (tallest WR trio in the league) and then scrap Sanu and Jones.

This is the dumbest post u ever made. You just lost all credibility
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