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per ESPN:
Confident in both his experience and knowledge of the position, Minnesota wasn’t worried about the recovery time keeping him out of spring practice, because the coaching staff was convinced he wouldn’t need the reps. The sooner he was feeling like his old self again ahead of training camp in August, the better off the Gophers would be, particularly since a healthy Christenson is capable of filling any one of three positions in the middle of the offensive line for a team with aspirations of winning the Big Ten West Division.
“Getting the rod out of his leg, you would have thought the kid got a new bike on Christmas morning,” offensive coordinator Matt Limegrover said. “Jon is a kid, graduating early, he’s got great academic plans, he’s shooting for the stars and he’s going to get it, he’s a 4.0 student, he got married last May, but he really did struggle with the injury. You just knew he was struggling, and we were trying to find any way we could, giving him days off, just to have him around and involved. We got him in [blocking on extra points] and he was an emergency guy for us, but we knew it was tough on him.
“He’s one of the toughest SOBs I know. He played a whole season with that thing.”
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/118233/rod-free-jon-christenson-ready-to-help-gophers
Go Gophers!!
Confident in both his experience and knowledge of the position, Minnesota wasn’t worried about the recovery time keeping him out of spring practice, because the coaching staff was convinced he wouldn’t need the reps. The sooner he was feeling like his old self again ahead of training camp in August, the better off the Gophers would be, particularly since a healthy Christenson is capable of filling any one of three positions in the middle of the offensive line for a team with aspirations of winning the Big Ten West Division.
“Getting the rod out of his leg, you would have thought the kid got a new bike on Christmas morning,” offensive coordinator Matt Limegrover said. “Jon is a kid, graduating early, he’s got great academic plans, he’s shooting for the stars and he’s going to get it, he’s a 4.0 student, he got married last May, but he really did struggle with the injury. You just knew he was struggling, and we were trying to find any way we could, giving him days off, just to have him around and involved. We got him in [blocking on extra points] and he was an emergency guy for us, but we knew it was tough on him.
“He’s one of the toughest SOBs I know. He played a whole season with that thing.”
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/118233/rod-free-jon-christenson-ready-to-help-gophers
Go Gophers!!