Clinton Portis delivered the news first – his MRI revealed nothing new and only showed some swelling. What that means for Sunday remains uncertain – he wouldn’t rule himself out — but it’s hard to imagine Portis playing one week after suffering another setback from an injury that already caused him to miss five games.
Portis had been running well vs. Tennessee, with 32 yards on five carries. And, on his weekly paid radio appearance on 106.7 The Fan, he called the play in which he re-injured his left groin “the flukiest play.”
“A guy grabbed my leg trying to hold on and twisted by body up,” Portis said.
Chances are others will try to do the same.
Meanwhile, Portis also reminisced about late Redskins safety Sean Taylor. The three-year anniversary of his death is Saturday.
Here’s what he had to say:
On how often he thinks of Taylor: “Every day, man. Every night that I pray I always talk to Sean. It’s crazy. You look back and it’s three years ago and you look at that situation and where would we be if we still had Sean T. I know he’s still missed by his family… You still hear the stories of something he done that was amazing. Maybe it’s an overthrown ball or a ball thrown downfield and it’s like, ‘Sean would have done this or Sean would have done that.’ … I still remember all the criticism he took coming in and leaving the symposium and then the DUI and everything else and how he avoided the media and all of a sudden you found out he’s one of the most loved players in the league.”
On a fond memory: “I went by to talk to him one day and I went by his house and it was probably 15-20 degrees outside and we ended up riding four-wheelers for damn hear three hours in the woods through a path he had made in his new development. He was teaching me to ride four wheelers. I remember pulling back in and snot’s all over my face and my hands froze and he’s like, ‘This ain’t nothing; it’s what I do every day. When you look back now, it’s priceless. I had no intentions of getting on four wheelers for three hours, but at the end of the day that’s one of my fondest memories.”
On the night Taylor died: “I remember being in the hospital and we thought he was responding and things would be OK and everyone when we went to sleep, we felt like tomorrow we’d have Sean back. When I got the knock on my door I knew what it was. I remember looking at the clock and it was four something and I just felt that’s the only information that could be being delivered at this time. When you hear those words you think man I don’t get the opportunity to see him again, the things I would have told him. …I thought about my last conversation with him… He was upset because I didn’t tell him I’d had a son and he was so excited about having a child. He was like, ‘I would love to have a little boy, I love my girl, but you’re lucky. You got a son.’ [I remember] ho excited he was and how upset he was at the same time. It was a bittersweet memory.”
