Jihaad Campbell Surgery May Benefit Bucs
March 20th, 2025
Injury revealed.
Bad news for Alabama linebacker Jihaad Campbell; good news for the Bucs.
The way folks were talking about this Campbell, who is a beast, Joe was starting to get scared some team before the Bucs pick at No. 19 may grab him, or trade down so another team could grab him ahead of the Bucs.
It appears, per Jordan Reid of BSPN, that Campbell had shoulder surgery for a torn labrum just days after the combine. That tells Joe that all the medical tests that are conducted at the combine found the injury.
Or, Campbell may have injured the shoulder at the combine. It is unclear when Campbell injured his shoulder. He left the Alabama-Michigan Outback Bowl on Jan. 1 with what the team deemed “an upper-body injury.”
It is unknown if that is when Campbell suffered the injury.
Per Charean Williams of Pro Football Talk, a torn labrum can take as long as eight months of post-surgery rehab to heal. That could put Campbell on the shelf through October.
Why is Joe smiling at someone’s misfortune? Well, if Campbell can’t play Week 1, perhaps his surgery and possible unavailability at the start of the season will spook enough teams to allow Campbell to fall into Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht’s lap?
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