Quincy Enunwa revealed he has spinal stenosis and hopes to return to the Jets

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Quincy Enunwa, who was available to speak as the Jets wrapped up their end of season interviews, revealed that he has been diagnosed with spinal stenosis but did not need surgery.

He missed nearly the entire 2019 season with a neck injury.

"It's unfortunate what's going on, there's not much I can really do about it though," Enunwa said in the locker room Monday. "It's one of those things where I was kind of like born this way I guess, that's what I found out."

"It's not really one of those things that I can control too much," he said on his medical trajectory.

The fifth-year wide receiver -- who has spent his entire career in New York -- offered some optimism that he can return from the injury, and hopefully still be in green.

"Hopefully I can stay and play well and put up numbers that I want to put for this team, I would be a beautiful thing for me...but right now it's just about coming back healthy and handling the situation in a proper way," Enunwa said.

Enunwa said "of course" he wants to remain a part of the Jets. "Why would I not want to be here? I love it here."

Quincy Enunwa reveals he has spinal stenosis, hopes to return to Jets

Quincy Enunwa was available to speak with in the Jets locker room Monday as the team wrapped up their end of season interviews with the media.

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[TebowCan'tThrow]

Retire please.

 

[NewMFS62]

He'll be ready to resume playing right after David Wright is.
Later

 

[AFA2017]

Trade him or cut him. He is more like Winters. Spends more time with medical staff or on IR.

 

[hatnlvr]

Very unfortunate! The guy is a beast but the neck injury is extremely serious and has kept him out 2 of the past 3 seasons.

It's been said it is only a 50/50 chance that he will play again. For his own well being he needs to just retire and worry about his health.

 

[TonyFtLaud]

Very unfortunate! The guy is a beast but the neck injury is extremely serious and has kept him out 2 of the past 3 seasons.

It's been said it is only a 50/50 chance that he will play again. For his own well being he needs to just retire and worry about his health.

No way he retires. His money is guaranteed for injury. Just make the appointments for therapy and collect all those millions.

 

[hatnlvr]

No way he retires. His money is guaranteed for injury. Just make the appointments for therapy and collect all those millions.

Injury retirement, he gets paid, the team is off the hook for the salary (insurance pays), and the cap relief kicks in quicker.

 

[TonyFtLaud]

Injury retirement, he gets paid, the team is off the hook for the salary (insurance pays), and the cap relief kicks in quicker.

Doesn't work that way. There is no cap relief in the NFL.
Retirement = forfeiture of guaranteed money.

 

[Gramoah]

Unfortunately the most effective treatment for that condition is surgery. Opioids give pain relief and help with some of the numbness and weakness in the limbs but he would get suspended for using them. Therapy helps short term and some patients have had some luck with acupuncture. He doesn't have a lot of options. I suspect he will be on IR most of his time with the Jets.

 

[hatnlvr]

He had surgery, played 11 games the next season, then back out with a neck injury again the first game of the following season.

I'm sorry but he just hasn't been able to stay healthy. Maybe his body "as big as he is" just cannot take NFL punishment.

 

[Gramoah]

He had surgery, played 11 games the next season, then back out with a neck injury again the first game of the following season.

I'm sorry but he just hasn't been able to stay healthy. Maybe his body "as big as he is" just cannot take NFL punishment.

Right..........and surgery is still the most effective solution and even then it can be a reoccurring problem especially for a football player. That's why I believe that he will spend most of his time with the team on IR.

 

[hatnlvr]

Right..........and surgery is still the most effective solution and even then it can be a reoccurring problem especially for a football player. That's why I believe that he will spend most of his time with the team on IR.

When doctors say "it's 50/50 that you may play again" with something as serious as a neck injury. You really do need to call it a career. NFL careers are extremely short (2 1/2 years on average), you still have a life to live after that and a neck injury could completely ruin that.

 

[Gramoah]

When doctors say "it's 50/50 that you may play again" with something as serious as a neck injury. You really do need to call it a career. NFL careers are extremely short (2 1/2 years on average), you still have a life to live after that and a neck injury could completely ruin that.

I agree. His condition isn't a life threatening one. It's more of a mobility type of ailment with numbness and weakness of the limbs and also sometimes balance is effected. It can be quite a painful ailment really. In a different line of work he might be able to function normally without further damage to the squeezed nerves in the spinal cord. BUT, his salary is guaranteed for injury so it's in his best interest to hang around and not call it a career until his guaranteed income peters out. Plus he gets to hang around with the gang and maybe even actually see the field again for a bit.

 

[hatnlvr]

I'm sure he'll spend most of next season on the sideline with various ailments as well. Once thing Quincy has shown us is "he can and will get injured"

 

[TonyFtLaud]

I agree. His condition isn't a life threatening one. It's more of a mobility type of ailment with numbness and weakness of the limbs and also sometimes balance is effected. It can be quite a painful ailment really. In a different line of work he might be able to function normally without further damage to the squeezed nerves in the spinal cord. BUT, his salary is guaranteed for injury so it's in his best interest to hang around and not call it a career until his guaranteed income peters out. Plus he gets to hang around with the gang and maybe even actually see the field again for a bit.

I don't think he ever sees the field again. It would mean he's been deemed healthy and if that happens, he would be released immediately, voiding future guaranteed money.

 

[Gramoah]

I don't think he ever sees the field again. It would mean he's been deemed healthy and if that happens, he would be released immediately, voiding future guaranteed money.

That's a good point. Maybe that's why they want him to be cleared to play........................................??????????????

 

[TonyFtLaud]

That's a good point. Maybe that's why they want him to be cleared to play........................................??????????????

If he passes his physical before the first day of the league year, all the guaranteed $ is gone. If it's after day 1, 2021s guarantees void. I don't think the team risks further injury and being back on the hook.

 

[AFA2017]

Too many injuries. Need a good conditioning coach who stresses flexibility and you'll some of those injuries (not Enunwa's) go down and less players on IR.

 

[cheaterhater]

So, here's my 2 cents having had a surgery for herniated disc in my neck. Stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal where the nerve goes through. Once it gets bad enough to shut down the nerve than you would get surgery.

So, I had a collapsed disc or 2 that entirely shut off the nerve. I had numbness in 3 fingers, my forearm and had my triceps totally shut down. Couldn't do a single push up. Doctor said if I didn't do surgery, I would have that part of my arm useless. I am claustrophobic and found out how bad when I tried an MRI. Took me a long time before having surgery because of this. Eventually had to have a ct angiogram instead of MRI( needle injecting fluid into spine... then ct scan, my God the MRI would have been better) anyway, because I delayed so long, my numbness never went away but I did get my strength back with therapy

I'm thinking that the neck injury is separate from the stenosis and they are not related as they are 2 different things. His stenosis must not be bad enough for surgery yet. Which to me, means that it's also not bad enough to affect his playing football. The neck injury, on the other hand may be the problem. Again unrelated

. Guys have had disc surgery and played again. Joe Montana, of course and , if I remember correctly, he won the Superbowls afterward and that was before the surgery was as common place as it is today. I had mine in my 30's and was scared shitless but my doctor said that he does these surgeries all day long.

Now, I have a couple screws and a plate in my neck which probably would not be good for a football player and my doctor told me to change careers of I might be back. Of course I still do what I do because it's what I do , I just try not to over do it

 

[Gramoah]

So, here's my 2 cents having had a surgery for herniated disc in my neck. Stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal where the nerve goes through. Once it gets bad enough to shut down the nerve than you would get surgery.

So, I had a collapsed disc or 2 that entirely shut off the nerve. I had numbness in 3 fingers, my forearm and had my triceps totally shut down. Couldn't do a single push up. Doctor said if I didn't do surgery, I would have that part of my arm useless. I am claustrophobic and found out how bad when I tried an MRI. Took me a long time before having surgery because of this. Eventually had to have a ct angiogram instead of MRI( needle injecting fluid into spine... then ct scan, my God the MRI would have been better) anyway, because I delayed so long, my numbness never went away but I did get my strength back with therapy

I'm thinking that the neck injury is separate from the stenosis and they are not related as they are 2 different things. His stenosis must not be bad enough for surgery yet. Which to me, means that it's also not bad enough to affect his playing football. The neck injury, on the other hand may be the problem. Again unrelated

. Guys have had disc surgery and played again. Joe Montana, of course and , if I remember correctly, he won the Superbowls afterward and that was before the surgery was as common place as it is today. I had mine in my 30's and was scared shitless but my doctor said that he does these surgeries all day long.

Now, I have a couple screws and a plate in my neck which probably would not be good for a football player and my doctor told me to change careers of I might be back. Of course I still do what I do because it's what I do , I just try not to over do it

What you say CH is mostly correct. There are two primary types of stenosis, Cervical and Lumbar both of which are frequently the result of a form of osteoarthritis. The neck injury in his case didn't cause the problem but, instead, agrivated the problem. He was likely born with the problem. The same symptoms are often caused by problems such as yours, frequently, the result of becoming an old fart like me. Honest CH, I'm not saying you are an old fart. But the narrowing of that nerve passage is often caused by the aging and drying out, so to speak, of the disk because they lose the fluid that makes them flexible which in turn causes the vertebrae to squeeze together. Therapy will often relieve the problem as will several other treatment methods but those are usually short term fixes. You have experienced the numbness and weakness that comes with that type of condition so you can imagine how difficult it would be to perform as a wide receiver in the NFL with numb or weak fingers or hands. I believe they can get him in shape to get on the field again but it wouldn't take many hits to reaggravate the condition and put him right back on the sidelines and that's probably why the doctors only give him a 50-50 chance of playing again. They are concerned about his long term health.